Hamiltonian formulation of guiding center motion and of the linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic equation

DOI10.1063/1.863658zbMath0502.76127OpenAlexW1976528067MaRDI QIDQ3968700

H. Vernon Wong

Publication date: 1982

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863658

zbMATH Keywords

Liouville's equationgyrokinetic equationssequence of canonical transformationsconfined by non-uniform inhomogeneous magnetic fieldHamiltonian formulation of guiding centre motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

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