Properties and evolution of anisotropic structures in collisionless plasmas
arXiv:1608.06202 · doi:10.1017/S0022377816000805
Abstract
A new class of exact electrostatic solutions of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations based on the Jeans's theorem is proposed for studying the evolution and properties of two-dimensional anisotropic plasmas that are far from thermodynamic equilibrium. In particular, the free expansion of a slab of electron-ion plasma into vacuum is investigated.
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