English

Noether derivation of exact conservation laws for dissipationless reduced-fluid models

Plasma Physics 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

The energy-momentum conservation laws for general reduced-fluid (e.g., gyrofluid) models are derived by Noether method from a general reduced variational principle. The reduced canonical energy-momentum tensor (which is explicitly asymmetric and has the Minkowski form) exhibits polarization and magnetization effects associated with dynamical reduction. In particular, the asymmetry in the reduced canonical momentum-stress tensor produces a non-vanishing reduced intrinsic torque that can drive spontaneous toroidal rotation in axisymmetric tokamak plasmas.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1009.4611,
  title  = {Noether derivation of exact conservation laws for dissipationless reduced-fluid models},
  author = {Alain J. Brizard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.4611},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages