Relaxed States in Relativistic Multi-Fluid Plasmas

Abstract

The evolution equations for a plasma comprising multiple species of charged fluids with relativistic bulk and thermal motion are derived. It is shown that a minimal fluid coupling model allows a natural casting of the evolution equations in terms of generalized vorticity which treats the fluid motion and electromagnetic fields equally. Equilibria can be found using a variational principle based on minimizing the total enstrophy subject to energy and helicity constraints. A subset of these equilibria correspond to minimum energy. The equations for these states are presented with example solutions showing the structure of the relaxed states.

8 pages, 2 figures

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