Symmetries of a reduced fluid-gyrokinetic system
Abstract
Symmetries of a fluid-gyrokinetic model are investigated using Lie group techniques. Specifically the nonlinear system constructed by Zocco and Schekochihin (Zocco & Schekochihin 2011), which combines nonlinear fluid equations with a drift-kinetic description of parallel electron dynamics, is studied. Significantly, this model is fully gyrokinetic, allowing for arbitrary k_perp rho_i , where k_perp is the perpendicular wave vector of the fluctuations and rho_i the ion gyroradius. The model includes integral operators corresponding to gyroaveraging as well as the moment equations relating fluid variables to the kinetic distribution function. A large variety of exact symmetries is uncovered, some of which have unexpected form. Using these results, new nonlinear solutions are constructed, including a helical generalization of the Chapman-Kendall solution for a collapsing current sheet.
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@article{arxiv.1712.01069,
title = {Symmetries of a reduced fluid-gyrokinetic system},
author = {Ryan White and Richard Hazeltine and Nuno Loureiro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01069},
year = {2018}
}