Wednesday, June 12, 2013

1306.2406 (Philip J. Morrison et al.)

Energy stability analysis for a hybrid fluid-kinetic plasma model    [PDF]

Philip J. Morrison, Emanuele Tassi, Cesare Tronci
In plasma physics, a hybrid fluid-kinetic model is composed of a magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) part that describes a bulk fluid component and a Vlasov kinetic theory part that describes an energetic plasma component. While most hybrid models in the plasma literature are non-Hamiltonian, this paper investigates a recent Hamiltonian variant in its two-dimensional configuration. The corresponding Hamiltonian structure is described along with its Casimir invariants. Then, the energy-Casimir method is used to derive explicit sufficient stability conditions, which imply a stable spectrum and suggest nonlinear stability.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2406

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