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Gyrokinetic Vlasov-Poisson model derived by hybrid-coordinate transform of the distribution function

Plasma Physics 2020-06-02 v1

Abstract

This paper points out that the full-orbit density obtained in the standard electrostatic gyrokinetic model is not truly accurate at the order εσ1\varepsilon^{\sigma-1} with respect to the equilibrium distribution eαμe^{-\alpha \mu} with μ(0,μmax)\mu \in (0, \mu_{\max}), where ε\varepsilon is the order of the normalized Larmor radius, εσ\varepsilon^{\sigma} the order of the amplitude of the normalized electrostatic potential, and α\alpha a factor of O(1)O(1). 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 εσ1\varepsilon^{\sigma-1}. The numerical comparison between the new gyrokinetic model and the standard one was carried out using Selalib code for an initial distribution proportional to exp(μBTi)\exp(\frac{-\mu B}{T_i}) 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}
}