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Parallel acceleration due to the radial electric field in a magnetized plasma with low-frequency turbulence

Authors :
Wang, Shaojie
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

A new physical mechanism of the parallel acceleration of a turbulent magnetized plasma is discovered by using a Fokker-Planck phase space stochastic transport equation. It is found that the random walk of a charged particle is correlated with the random change of the parallel velocity due to the radial electric field and the magnetic moment conservation. This correlation leads to a parallel acceleration of the plasma with a finite parallel fluid flow.

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics - Plasma Physics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1406.7617
Document Type :
Working Paper