Physica Scripta · 1988 · 43 citations · 15 references
Wave Vector SpaceEngineeringPhysicsAerospace EngineeringLarmor RadiusStatistical Field TheoryPlasma TheoryNumerical SimulationApplied Plasma PhysicPlasma ScienceMagnetohydrodynamicsPlasma PhysicsArbitrary OrderGeometric Singular Perturbation TheoryThermodynamicsGuiding CentersPlasma Modeling
A representation of a finite Larmor radius plasma is proposed, which permits the transition rL → ∞ without becoming mathematically ill-posed. It is being used in a two-dimensional guiding center plasma spectral code and may have useful analytical applications. The ions are represented as guiding centers and the Larmor radius is averaged analytically for every Fourier-mode. Finite Larmor radius densities and velocities are thus obtained from guiding center quantities by application of a filter in wave vector space.
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