Hamiltonian structure of two-fluid plasma dynamics
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 25 (4) , 2437-2439
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.25.2437
Abstract
We present the Hamiltonian structure of two-fluid electrodynamics, with the Hamiltonian functional equaling the energy. The Poisson bracket on functionals of the fluid variables and the electric and magnetic fields is bilinear, antisymmetric, and satisfies the Jacobi identity.Keywords
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