Published April 1980 | Version v1
Journal article

Thermodynamic stability of anomalous drift wave transport

Creators

  • 1. Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Dept. of Physics

Description

The anomalous transport of particles and energy due to drift wave fluctuations in high temperature plasmas is derived and shown to lead to a positive definite form for the rate of internal entropy production. The entropy production functional is the Lyapounov function for the thermodynamic system and is used to investigate the thermal stability of the steady state transport. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Plasma Phys.
Journal Volume
22
Journal Issue
4
Series
Plasma Phys.
Journal Page Range
345-354
ISSN
0032-1028