Relaxed plasma equilibria and entropy-related plasma self-organization principles
arXiv:0810.0825 · doi:10.3390/e10040621
Abstract
The concept of plasma relaxation as a constrained energy minimization is reviewed. Recent work by the authors on generalizing this approach to partially relaxed three-dimensional plasma systems in a way consistent with chaos theory is discussed, with a view to clarifying the thermodynamic aspects of the variational approach used. Other entropy-related approaches to finding long-time steady states of turbulent or chaotic plasma systems are also briefly reviewed.
Contribution to the Proceedings of the AMSI/MASCOS Concepts of Entropy and their Applications Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, November-December 2007, to be published in Entropy e-journal http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/
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