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Tokamak-like Vlasov equilibria

Plasma Physics 2015-06-18 v1

Abstract

Vlasov equilibria of axisymmetric plasmas with vacuum toroidal magnetic field can be reduced, up to a selection of ions and electrons distributions functions, to a Grad-Shafranov-like equation. Quasineutrality narrow the choice of the distributions functions. In contrast to two-dimensional translationally symmetric equilibria whose electron distribution function consists of a displaced Maxwellian, the toroidal equilibria need deformed Maxwellians. In order to be able to carry through the calculations, this deformation is produced by means of either a Heaviside step function or an exponential function. The resulting Grad-Shafranov-like equations are established explicitly.

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@article{arxiv.1401.8228,
  title  = {Tokamak-like Vlasov equilibria},
  author = {H. Tasso and G. N. Throumoulopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.8228},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages

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