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Particle kinetics in highly turbulent plasmas (renormalization and self-consistent field methods)
A. M. Bykova, I. N. Toptyginb a Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg
b Saint-Petersburg State Technical University
Abstract:
This review presents methods available for calculating transport coefficients for impurity particles in plasmas with strong long-wave MHD-type velocity and magnetic-field fluctuations, and random ensembles of strong shock fronts. The renormalization of the coefficients of the mean-field equation of turbulent dynamo theory is also considered. Particular attention is devoted to the renormalization method developed by the authors in which the renormalized transport coefficients are calculated from a nonlinear transcendental equation (or a set of such equations) and are expressed in the form of explicit functions of pair correlation tensors describing turbulence. Numerical calculations are reproduced for different turbulence spectra. Spatial transport in a magnetic field and particle acceleration by strong turbulence are investigated. The theory can be used in a wide range of practical problems in plasma physics, atmospheric physics, ocean physics, astrophysics, cosmic-ray physics, and so on.
Received: June 25, 1993 Revised: September 30, 1993
Citation:
A. M. Bykov, I. N. Toptygin, “Particle kinetics in highly turbulent plasmas (renormalization and self-consistent field methods)”, UFN, 163:11 (1993), 19–56; Phys. Usp., 36:11 (1993), 1020–1052
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