Low-Frequency Interchange Stability of Plasmas from the Maximum Entropy Conditions
- 1 July 1969
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 12 (7) , 1522-1524
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1692699
Abstract
The conditions for the stability of a low-pressure plasma equilibrium against low-frequency interchange modes, including trapped particle modes, are also conditions for a maximum of the entropy functional introduced in preceding papers.Keywords
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