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Reduced models accounting for parallel magnetic perturbations: gyrofluid and FLR-Landau fluid approaches

Authors :
Tassi, Emanuele
Sulem, Pierre-Louis
Passot, Thierry
CPT - Ex E8 Dynamique non linéaire
Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT)
Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE)
Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS)
COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)
COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source :
Journal of Plasma Physics, Journal of Plasma Physics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016, 82 (6), pp.705820601. ⟨10.1017/S0022377816000921⟩, Journal of Plasma Physics, 2016, 82 (6), pp.705820601. ⟨10.1017/S0022377816000921⟩
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
HAL CCSD, 2016.

Abstract

International audience; Reduced models are derived for a strongly magnetized collisionless plasma at scales large relatively to the electron thermal gyroradius, in two asymptotic regimes. One corresponds to cold ions and the other to far sub-ion scales. By including the electron pressure dynamics , these models improve the Hall reduced MHD and the kinetic Alfvén wave model of Boldyrev et al. (2013), respectively. We show that the two models can be obtained either within a gyrofluid formalism (Brizard 1992) or as suitable weakly nonlinear limits of the FLR-Landau fluid of Sulem & Passot (2015) which extends anisotropic Hall-magnetohydrodynamics by retaining low-frequency kinetic effects. It is noticeable that, at the far sub-ion scales, the simplifications originating from the gyroaveraging operators in the gyrofluid formalism and leading to subdominant ion velocity and temperature fluctuations, correspond, at the level of the FLR-Landau fluid, to cancellation between hydrodynamic contributions and ion finite Larmor radius corrections. Energy conservation properties of the models are discussed and an explicit example of closure relation leading to a model with a Hamiltonian structure is provided.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00223778 and 14697807
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Plasma Physics, Journal of Plasma Physics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016, 82 (6), pp.705820601. ⟨10.1017/S0022377816000921⟩, Journal of Plasma Physics, 2016, 82 (6), pp.705820601. ⟨10.1017/S0022377816000921⟩
Accession number :
edsair.dedup.wf.001..3425fe6f6cd21fe1f97b76a11776c2d1