Parallel acceleration due to the radial electric field in a magnetized plasma with low-frequency turbulence
Plasma Physics
2014-07-01 v1
Abstract
A new physical mechanism of the parallel acceleration of a turbulent magnetized plasma is discovered by using a Fokker-Planck phase space stochastic transport equation. It is found that the random walk of a charged particle is correlated with the random change of the parallel velocity due to the radial electric field and the magnetic moment conservation. This correlation leads to a parallel acceleration of the plasma with a finite parallel fluid flow.
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@article{arxiv.1406.7617,
title = {Parallel acceleration due to the radial electric field in a magnetized plasma with low-frequency turbulence},
author = {Shaojie Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.7617},
year = {2014}
}