Orbit-averaged Guiding-center Fokker-Planck Operator
Plasma Physics
2015-05-13 v2
Abstract
A general orbit-averaged guiding-center Fokker-Planck operator suitable for the numerical analysis of transport processes in axisymmetric magnetized plasmas is presented. The orbit-averaged guiding-center operator describes transport processes in a three-dimensional guiding-center invariant space: the orbit-averaged magnetic-flux invariant , the minimum-B pitch-angle coordinate , and the momentum magnitude .
Cite
@article{arxiv.0906.4427,
title = {Orbit-averaged Guiding-center Fokker-Planck Operator},
author = {A. J. Brizard and J. Decker and Y. Peysson and F. -X. Duthoit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4427},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, accepted for publication in Physics of Plasmas