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Hot Matter in Thermal Equilibrium

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The model of matter as a fluid provided us with conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy. They hold for all kinds of fluids independently of their shape, their density, and their chemical composition. We have applied them successfully to describe neutral fluids like water or dilute gases, or plasma. The constituents of the plasma are electrically charged and couple strongly to electric fields and are, as a consequence, largely dominated by collective effects. For such phenomena modelling the plasma as a fluid turns out to be very appropriate.

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Mulser, P. (2020). Hot Matter in Thermal Equilibrium. In: Hot Matter from High-Power Lasers. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61181-4_4

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