sci.physics.plasma

>Can Anyone give some references to start reading gyrokinetic theory?

A. Brizard and T. S. Hahm, Rev Mod Phys 79 (2007) 412
Foundations of nonlinear gyrokinetic theory

T. S. Hahm, Phys Fluids 31 (1988) 2670
Nonlinear gyrokinetic equations for tokamak microturbulence

T. S. Hahm and W. W. Lee and A. Brizard, Phys Fluids 31 (1988) 1940
Nonlinear gyrokinetic theory for finite-beta plasmas

A. J. Brizard and A. A. Chan, Phys Plasmas 6 (1999) 4548
Nonlinear relativistic gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell equations

H. Sugama, Phys Plasmas 7 (2000) 466
Gyrokinetic field theory

A. J. Brizard, Phys Plasmas 7 (2000) 4816
Variational principle for nonlinear gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell equations

a simple set of slides giving a tutorial (based on Hahm 88 and Sugama 00):
http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/write-ups/
http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/write-ups/gyrotalk.ps

Hope this helps!

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ciao,
Bruce

drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/