Gyrokinetic Vlasov-Poisson model derived by hybrid-coordinate transform of the distribution function
Abstract
This paper points out that the full-orbit density obtained in the standard electrostatic gyrokinetic model is not truly accurate at the order with respect to the equilibrium distribution with , where is the order of the normalized Larmor radius, the order of the amplitude of the normalized electrostatic potential, and a factor of . This error makes the exact order of the full-orbit density not consistent with that of the approximation of the full-orbit distribution function. By implementing a hybrid coordinate frame to get the full-orbit distribution, specifically, by replacing the magnetic moment on the full-orbit coordinate frame with the one on the gyrocenter coordinate frame to derive the full-orbit distribution transformed from the gyrocenter distribution, it's proved that the full-orbit density can be approximated with the exact order being . The numerical comparison between the new gyrokinetic model and the standard one was carried out using Selalib code for an initial distribution proportional to in constant cylindrical magnetic field configuration with the existence of electrostatic perturbations. In such a configuration, the simulation results exhibit similar performance between the two models.
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@article{arxiv.2006.00606,
title = {Gyrokinetic Vlasov-Poisson model derived by hybrid-coordinate transform of the distribution function},
author = {Shuangxi Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.00606},
year = {2020}
}