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Momentum conservation in dissipationless reduced-fluid dynamics

Plasma Physics 2010-09-17 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The momentum conservation law for general dissipationless reduced-fluid (e.g., gyrofluid) models is derived by Noether method from a variational principle. The reduced-fluid momentum density and the reduced-fluid canonical momentum-stress tensor both exhibit polarization and magnetization effects as well as an internal torque associated with dynamical reduction. As an application, we derive an explicit gyrofluid toroidal angular-momentum conservation law for axisymmetric toroidal magnetized plasmas.

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@article{arxiv.1009.3218,
  title  = {Momentum conservation in dissipationless reduced-fluid dynamics},
  author = {Alain J. Brizard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3218},
  year   = {2010}
}

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