Hamiltonian closures for two-moment fluid models derived from drift-kinetic equations

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/19/195501zbMATH Open1302.76228arXiv1402.1885OpenAlexW4298132359MaRDI QIDQ5419306FDOQ5419306

Authors: Emanuele Tassi 

Publication date: 6 June 2014

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive the conditions under which the fluid models obtained from the first two moments of Hamiltonian drift-kinetic systems of interest to plasma physics, preserve a Hamiltonian structure. The adopted procedure consists of determining closure relations that allow to truncate the Poisson bracket of the drift-kinetic system, expressed in terms of the moments, in such a way that the resulting operation is a Poisson bracket for functionals of the first two fluid moments. The analysis is carried out for a class of full drift-kinetic equations and also for drift-kinetic systems in which a splitting between an equilibrium distribution function and a perturbation is performed. In the former case we obtain that the only closure, not involving integral or differential operators, that leads to a Poisson bracket, corresponds to that of an ideal adiabatic gas made of molecules possessing one degree of freedom. In the latter case, Hamiltonian closures turn out to be those in which the second moment is a linear combination of the first two moments, which can be seen as a linearization of the Hamiltonian closure of the full drift-kinetic case. A number of weakly-3D Hamiltonian reduced fluid models of interest, for instance for tokamak plasmas, can be derived in this way and, viceversa given a fluid model with a Hamiltonian structure of a certain type, a parent Hamiltonian drift-kinetic model can then be identified. We make use of this correspondence to identify the drift-kinetic models from which Hamiltonian fluid models for magnetic reconnection and compressible plasma dynamics in the presence of a static but inhomogeneous magnetic field can be derived. The Casimir invariants of the Poisson brackets of the derived fluid models are also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1885

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zbMATH Keywords

Poisson bracketsHamiltonian structuresfluid modelsdrift kinetic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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