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Reduced drift-kinetics with thermal velocity distribution across magnetic field

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2016-02-02 v1 Plasma Physics

Abstract

The goal of this study is to develop an approximate self-consistent description of particle motion in strongly magnetised solar corona. We derive a set of reduced drift-kinetic equations based on the assumption that the gyro-velocity distribution is Maxwellian. The equations are tested using simple 1D models.

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@article{arxiv.1602.00341,
  title  = {Reduced drift-kinetics with thermal velocity distribution across magnetic field},
  author = {Mykola Gordovskyy and Philippa Browning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00341},
  year   = {2016}
}