title: Variational principles and self-organization in two-fluid plasmas.
abstract: Self-organization of an ordered structure occurs in a plasma under rather restrictive conditions. A new framework for a variational principle invokes a coercive form that results in a criterion for self-organizing relaxation of a two-fluid plasma. The constraints (constants of motion of the ideal model) are adjusted, through a weakly dissipative process, so that the relaxed state, under well-defined conditions, is a stable equilibrium independent of the direct effects of dissipation.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Mahajan