Thermodynamics of High Temperature Plasmas

In this work we discuss how and to what extent the thermodynamic concepts and the thermodynamic formalism can be extended to the description of high temperature states of the plasma not necessarily associated with a Boltzmann distribution and with thermal equilibrium.The discussion is based on the “...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ettore Minardi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-03-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/11/1/124/