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Kinetic description of quasi-stationary axisymmetric collisionless accretion disk plasmas with arbitrarymagnetic field configurations.

C. Cremaschini
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J. C. Miller
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TESSAROTTO, MASSIMO
2011
  • journal article

Periodico
PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Abstract
A largely unsolved theoretical issue in controlled fusion research is the consistent kinetic treatment of slowly-time varying plasma states occurring in collisionless and magnetized axisymmetric plasmas. The phenomenology may include finite pressure anisotropies as well as strong toroidal and poloidal differential rotation, characteristic of Tokamak plasmas. Despite the fact that physical phenomena occurring in fusion plasmas depend fundamentally on the microscopic particle phase-space dynamics, their consistent kinetic treatment remains still essentially unchalleged to date. The goal of this paper is to address the problem within the framework of Vlasov-Maxwell description. The gyrokinetic treatment of charged particles dynamics is adopted for the construction of asymptotic solutions for the quasi-stationary species kinetic distribution functions. These are expressed in terms of the particle exact and adiabatic invariants. The theory relies on a perturbative approach, which permits to construct asymptotic analytical solutions of the Vlasov-Maxwell system. In this way, both diamagnetic and energy corrections are included consistently into the theory. In particular, by imposing suitable kinetic constraints, the existence of generalized bi-Maxwellian asymptotic kinetic equilibria is pointed out. These solutions satisfy identically also the constraints imposed by the Maxwell equations, i.e. quasi-neutrality and Ampere's law. As a result, it is shown that, in the presence of non-uniform fluid and EM fields, these kinetic equilibria can sustain simultaneously toroidal differential rot
DOI
10.1063/1.3592674
Archivio
http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2384605
http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2388218
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-79960183519
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Soggetti
  • Kintetic theory

  • accretion disk

  • magnetized plasmas

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