A VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR EQUILIBRIA FROM THE PARTICLE POINT OF VIEW
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4197224
S>The equilibrium equations for a plasma from the particie point of view are written down in the small m/e limit according to Chew, Goldberger, and Low. These are discussed in the case of a toroidal geometry with magnetic sudaces. The Boltzman function f depends only on the energy, the magnetic moment, and the magnetic surface, A variational principle equivalent to the full system of selfconsistent equations is derived under this constraint in f. It is found to be necessary to introduce one more constraint on the particles (besides the constants of the motion for the particle, the magnetic moment, and the magnetic surface). This is a generalization of the longitudinal invarianl, (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Univ., N.J. Project Matterhorn
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-004056
- OSTI ID:
- 4197224
- Report Number(s):
- TID-7582(Paper 23)
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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