On Dec 6, 5:50 pm, Bruce Scott TOK
> >Can Anyone give some references to start reading gyrokinetic theory?
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> A. Brizard and T. S. Hahm, Rev Mod Phys 79 (2007) 412
> Foundations of nonlinear gyrokinetic theory
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> T. S. Hahm, Phys Fluids 31 (1988) 2670
> Nonlinear gyrokinetic equations for tokamak microturbulence
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> T. S. Hahm and W. W. Lee and A. Brizard, Phys Fluids 31 (1988) 1940
> Nonlinear gyrokinetic theory for finite-beta plasmas
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> A. J. Brizard and A. A. Chan, Phys Plasmas 6 (1999) 4548
> Nonlinear relativistic gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell equations
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> H. Sugama, Phys Plasmas 7 (2000) 466
> Gyrokinetic field theory
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> A. J. Brizard, Phys Plasmas 7 (2000) 4816
> Variational principle for nonlinear gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell equations
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> 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
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> Hope this helps!
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> ciao,
> Bruce
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> drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
thanks Prof. Scott.
i'll read those you mentioned. Any good refs for 'linear gyrokinetic
theory' say drift waves or ITG etc... ?