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Theoretical Modelling

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For plasmas, the Liouville equation of many-body distribution functions is the complete statistical description of a many-body system and describes every detail of plasmas from the largest to the smallest spatial and temporal scales. The amount of information contained in the many-body distribution function is vast, and as a consequence it is very hard to directly deal with the Liouville equation.

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Yang, Y. (2019). Theoretical Modelling. In: Energy Transfer and Dissipation in Plasma Turbulence . Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8149-2_2

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