Negative Specific Heat of a Magnetically Self-Confined Plasma Torus

MK Kiessling; Thomas Neukirch

doi:10.1073/pnas.252779099

Negative Specific Heat of a Magnetically Self-Confined Plasma Torus

MK Kiessling, Thomas Neukirch

Applied Mathematics

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Abstract

It is shown that the thermodynamic maximum-entropy principle predicts negative specific heat for a stationary, magnetically self-confined current-carrying plasma torus. Implications for the magnetic self-confinement of fusion plasma are considered.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1510-1514
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	100
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.252779099
Publication status	Published - 18 Feb 2003

Keywords

GUIDING-CENTER PLASMA
STATISTICAL-MECHANICS APPROACH
SOLAR ERUPTIVE PROCESSES
GRAVITATING SYSTEM
PHASE-TRANSITIONS
ONSET CONDITIONS
EQUILIBRIUM
MODEL
EQUIVALENCE
TOKAMAK

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Negative Specific Heat of a Magnetically Self-Confined Plasma Torus

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