Dissipative relaxed states in two-fluid plasma with external drive

Abstract

In this work the principle of minimum dissipation rate is applied to an externally driven two-fluid plasma. The definition of generalized helicity has been modified to a gauge invariant form to incorporate open systems. The relaxed state is represented by a double-curl equation and supports nonzero flow. In the limit of vanishingly small dissipation, the equation is shown to retain the double-curl form that represents a steady state configuration supported by a two-fluid plasma.