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On quasisymmetric plasma equilibria sustained by small force

Authors :
Theodore D. Drivas
Daniel Ginsberg
Peter Constantin
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
arXiv, 2020.

Abstract

We construct smooth, non-symmetric plasma equilibria which possess closed, nested flux surfaces and solve the magnetohydrostatic (steady three-dimensional incompressible Euler) equations with a small force. The solutions are also `nearly' quasisymmetric. The primary idea is, given a desired quasisymmetry direction $\xi$, to change the smooth structure on space so that the vector field $\xi$ is Killing for the new metric and construct $\xi$--symmetric solutions of the magnetohydrostatic equations on that background by solving a generalized Grad-Shafranov equation. If $\xi$ is close to a symmetry of Euclidean space, then these are solutions on flat space up to a small forcing.<br />Comment: 24 pages, 2 figures, accepted version

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....054e58889d299d6b012e6675b071a825
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2009.08860