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Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Statistical Theory in Plasmas Physics

A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Statistical Physics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 1293

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Eun-jin Kim

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Centre for Fluids and Complex Systems, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 2TT, UK
Interests: fluid dynamics; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); plasma physics; self-organisation; non-equilibrium statistical mechanics; turbulence; solar/stellar physics; magnetic fusion; information theory; homeostasis in biosystems
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Prof. Dr. Geert Verdoolaege

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Research Unit Nuclear Fusion, Department of Applied Physics, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: probability theory; Bayesian inference; machine learning; information geometry; differential geometry; nuclear fusion; plasma physics; plasma turbulence; continuum mechanics; statistical mechanics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Plasmas in nature and laboratories are often strongly nonlinear, far from equilibrium. With the ability to be excited on a broad range of scales, numerous instabilities cause anomalous transport, events of large amplitude or intermittency. In fact, plasmas found in laboratories (e.g., magnetically confinement fusion) and nature (e.g., the Sun, stars) constitute an example of nonequilibrium systems wherein multiple scales are excited and interact with each other in a complex way, a proper description of which has always been a challenge in many disciplines.

This Special Issue aims to present different approaches to this challenging problem in plasmas by going beyond equilibrium statistical mechanics. Submissions reporting recent developments in theory, numerical simulations and experiments are especially welcome.

Dr. Eun-jin Kim
Prof. Dr. Geert Verdoolaege
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • plasmas
  • nuclear fusion
  • plasma turbulence
  • plasma transport
  • plasma physics
  • plasma simulations
  • plasma experiments
  • non-extensive statistical mechanics
  • anomalous transport
  • q-entropy
  • information theory
  • nonequilibrium statistics
  • Kullback-Leibler divergence
  • information length
  • differential geometry
  • self-organisation
  • fractional calculus
  • solar flares
  • stellar flares
  • transfer entropy
  • probability distribution
  • probability theory
  • extreme principle
  • entropy production
  • avalanches
  • machine learning
  • Bayesian statistics
  • continuum mechanics
  • information geometry
  • intermittency
 

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Stochastic Dynamics of Fusion Low-to-High Confinement Mode (L-H) Transition: Correlation and Causal Analyses Using Information Geometry
by Eun-Jin Kim and Abhiram Anand Thiruthummal
Entropy 2024, 26(1), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/e26010017 - 22 Dec 2023
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We investigate the stochastic dynamics of the prey–predator model of the Low-to-High confinement mode (L-H) transition in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. By considering stochastic noise in the turbulence and zonal flows as well as constant and time-varying input power Q, we perform [...] Read more.
We investigate the stochastic dynamics of the prey–predator model of the Low-to-High confinement mode (L-H) transition in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. By considering stochastic noise in the turbulence and zonal flows as well as constant and time-varying input power Q, we perform multiple stochastic simulations of over a million trajectories using GPU computing. Due to stochastic noise, some trajectories undergo the L-H transition while others do not, leading to a mixture of H-mode and dithering at a given time and/or input power. One of the consequences of this is that H-mode characteristics appear at a smaller input power Q<Qc (where Qc is the critical value for the L-H transition in the deterministic system) as a secondary peak of a probability density function (PDF) while dithering characteristics persists beyond the power threshold for Q>Qc as a second peak. The coexisting H-mode and dithering near Q=Qc leads to a prominent bimodal PDF with a gradual L-H transition rather than a sudden transition at Q=Qc and uncertainty in the input power. Also, a time-dependent input power leads to increased variability (dispersion) in stochastic trajectories and a more prominent bimodal PDF. We provide an interpretation of the results using information geometry to elucidate self-regulation between zonal flows, turbulence, and information causality rate to unravel causal relations involved in the L-H transition. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Statistical Theory in Plasmas Physics)
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