Hamiltonian Structure and Nonlinear Stability of Steady Solutions of the Generalized Hasegawa-Mima Equation for Drift Wave Turbulence in Curved Magnetic Fields
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Publication:6510295
DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2023.134031arXiv2305.16668MaRDI QIDQ6510295
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Abstract: The Generalized Hasegawa-Mima (GHM) equation, which generalizes the standard Hasegawa-Mima (HM) equation, is a nonlinear equation describing the evolution of drift wave turbulence in curved magnetic fields. The GHM equation can be obtained from a drift wave turbulence ordering that does not involve ordering conditions on spatial derivatives of the magnetic field or the plasma density, and it is therefore appropriate to describe the evolution of electrostatic turbulence in strongly inhomogeneous magnetized plasmas. In this work, we discuss the noncanonical Hamiltonian structure of the GHM equation, and obtain conditions for the nonlinear stability of steady solutions through the energy-Casimir stability criterion. These results are then applied to describe drift waves and infer the existence of stable toroidal zonal flows with radial shear in dipole magnetic fields.
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