The effective Vlasov-Poisson system for strongly magnetized plasmas

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2016.04.014MaRDI QIDQ2630173zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mihai Bostan, Aurélie Finot, Maxime Hauray

Publication date 25 July 2016

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00169

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Vlasov equations (35Q83) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Nuclear reactor theory; neutron transport (82D75)

Abstract: We study the finite Larmor radius regime for the Vlasov-Poisson system. The magnetic field is assumed to be uniform. We investigate this non linear problem in the two dimensional setting. We derive the limit model by appealing to gyro-average methods cf. cite{BosAsyAna}, cite{BosTraEquSin}. We indicate the explicit expression of the effective advection field, entering the Vlasov equation, after substituting the self-consistent electric field, obtained by the resolution of the averaged (with respect to the cyclotronic time scale) Poisson equation. We emphasize the Hamiltonian structure of the limit model and present its properties~: conservationss of the mass, kinetic energy, electric energy, etc.

Review text

This paper is composed of two parts. The first one is a concise summary of the preliminary result obtained earlier and published elsewhere (cf. [\textit{E. Frénod} and \textit{E. Sonnendrücker}, Asymptotic Anal. 18, No. 3--4, 193--213 (1998; Zbl 0936.82032); SIAM J. Math. Anal. 32, No. 6, 1227--1247 (2001; Zbl 0980.82030)] and [\textit{D. Han-Kwan}, ESAIM, Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 46, No. 4, 929--947 (2012; Zbl 1310.76190)]). These investigations are connected with magnetic confinement for plasma fusion, the dynamics of a population of charged particles under the action of a strong uniform magnetic field. The plasma is considered to be in the finite Larmor radius regime, the particle distribution fluctuates at the Larmor radius scale along the orthogonal directions with respect to the magnetic field. Therefore, the two-dimensional setting is used. The Boltzmann-Vlasov equation and Poisson equations are the starting point. The distribution function is obtained in the asymptotic regime. The fast time variables persist in the limit model and the computation of the velocity and acceleration vector fields of the limit Vlasov equation requires the resolution of the Poisson equation for every couple of slow/fast time variables. A~convergence result toward a simpler model has been found by \textit{M. Bostan} [Asymptotic Anal. 61, No. 2, 91--123 (2009; Zbl 1180.35501)] which is valid for well-prepared initial data only. Now this paper is devoted to apply to general initial data. A~limit model is found with a rather simple equation. It is a fully explicit nonlinear transport equation whose characteristic system is Hamiltonian (with respect to the appropriate variables) which can be studied in a much simpler way. The following part of the paper is concentrated on the elaboration of this statement.

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