Kinetic model of the transition layer between the plasmas with different values of invariants

I.A. Ivonin and V.P. Pavlenko
Department of Astronomy and Space Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden
ivonin@irfu.se


ABSTRACT:
The model for the transition layer between the plasmas with different characteristics is important in various physical applications, such as the transport barrier formation in the tokamak plasma, the magnetosheath - magnetosphere transition layer, some astrophysical problem.

These nonlinear structures of matter and the electromagnetic fields could appear as the attractors of a turbulent dynamics of a physical system that has been verified in direct numerical simulations of the dynamical problems.

In some cases (upper magnetosphere, tokamak plasma), when the kinetic effect of finite Larmor radius could be important, the pure kinetic approach can be used to get, from the first principles of the Poincare invariants conservation and the Liouville theorem, the final distributions of both nonuniform plasma and electromagnetic field at the transition layer. The demonstration of this approach is the main purpose of the presentation.