plasma physics

[Arvindbhai]

can any one explain me what is the meaning of self consistency of plasma ?

[ansgar]

what has this to do with nuclear and particle physics?

[ZapperZ]

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[Astronuc]

can any one explain me what is the meaning of self consistency of plasma ? What is the context of the question?

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Introduction to plasma physics (http://books.google.com/books?id=VcueZlunrbcC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=plasma+self+consistency&source=bl&ots=SxCaHDoTu7&sig=3Llla12u8-5Wfe754xgEb2T9xGU&hl=en&ei=eKEDTMzHNYSBlAfl5dWiCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCEQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=plasma%20self%20consistency&f=false): with space and laboratory applications By Donald A. Gurnett, Amitava Bhattacharjee
A complete mathematical model of a plasma requires three basic elements: first, the motion of all particles must be determined for some assumed electric and magnetic field configuration; second, the current and charge densities must be computed from the particle trajectories;, and third, the electric and magnetic fields must be self-consistently determined from the current and charges, taking into account both internal and external sources. To be self-consistent, the electric and magnetic fields obtained from the last step must correspond to the fields used in the first step. It is this self-consistency requirement that makes the analysis of a plasma difficult.