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Derivation and properties of a Balescu–Lenard like equation for stationary plasma turbulence in the weak-coupling approximation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Guy Pelletier  and
Claude Pomot
Guy Pelletier
Affiliation:
Laboratoire do Physique des Plasmas, Equipo do Recherche Associée au CNRS, Université do Grenoble I
Claude Pomot
Affiliation:
Laboratoire do Physique des Plasmas, Equipo do Recherche Associée au CNRS, Université do Grenoble I
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Abstract

In this paper, we derive a kinetic equation and discuss its validity for a stationary turbulent plasma. We use, for this purpose, the Dupree— Weinstock model in the weak-coupling approximation, and take into account ballistic streams. Frictional effects appear, in addition to the velocity diffusion. The diffusion causes a resonance broadening, the friction causes a frequency shift. Our model is a generalization of the dressed test particle model, and leads to a kinetic equation formally similar to Balescu— Lenard' s. A comparison between our model and the Dupree ‘clump’ theory is developed. Physical quantities are conserved, the H theorem is satisfied; but the asymptotic solution is not necessarily a Maxwellian distribution function.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , August 1975 , pp. 153 - 167
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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