REGIONAL MAXIMUM-ENTROPY THEORY OF VORTEX CRYSTAL-FORMATION

Authors
JIN DZ DUBIN DHE
Citation
Dz. Jin et Dhe. Dubin, REGIONAL MAXIMUM-ENTROPY THEORY OF VORTEX CRYSTAL-FORMATION, Physical review letters, 80(20), 1998, pp. 4434-4437
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
80
Issue
20
Year of publication
1998
Pages
4434 - 4437
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)80:20<4434:RMTOVC>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Experiments on pure electron plasmas have found that the decay of 2D t urbulence can lead to spontaneous formation of ''vortex crystals,'' wh ich are symmetric arrays of strong vortices within a background of wea ker vorticity, in this paper we shaw that these vortex crystals can be described as regional maximum fluid entropy states. The theory explai ns the observed patterns of the vortex crystals as well as the vortici ty distribution of the background.