Session UO1 - Reconnection, Nonlinear Phenomena, and Turbulence.
ORAL session, Thursday morning, October 26
Room 301AB, Qu\'{e}bec City Convention Centre
It is shown that two parallel plates immersed in a turbulent plasma can attract each other, due to the difference in the content of the turbulent spectrum of fluctuations in the inner and outer regions of the plasma. This attractive force adds to the usual electrostatic force associated with their coulombian potential and with the plasma screening. The present formulation leads to a general expression for the classical Casimir force. The specific cases of ion acoustic, electron plasma and electromagnetic turbulence are considered. The usual expression for the Casimir force in vacuum can also be derived from our results.