On quasisymmetric plasma equilibria sustained by small force
Analysis of PDEs
2021-02-17 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Fluid Dynamics
Plasma Physics
Abstract
We construct smooth, non-symmetric plasma equilibria which possess closed, nested flux surfaces and solve the magnetohydrostatic (steady three-dimensional incompressible Euler) equations with a small force. The solutions are also `nearly' quasisymmetric. The primary idea is, given a desired quasisymmetry direction , to change the smooth structure on space so that the vector field is Killing for the new metric and construct --symmetric solutions of the magnetohydrostatic equations on that background by solving a generalized Grad-Shafranov equation. If is close to a symmetry of Euclidean space, then these are solutions on flat space up to a small forcing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2009.08860,
title = {On quasisymmetric plasma equilibria sustained by small force},
author = {Peter Constantin and Theodore D. Drivas and Daniel Ginsberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08860},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
24 pages, 2 figures, accepted version