scholarly journals Contents: Contrib. Plasma Phys. 4/2015

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-278
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Phys

scholarly journals Direct construction of optimized stellarator shapes. Part 3. Omnigenity near the magnetic axis

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel G. Plunk ◽  
Matt Landreman ◽  
Per Helander
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Method ◽  
Plasma Phys ◽  
Magnetic Axis ◽  
Direct Construction ◽  
Numerical Construction ◽  
First Order

The condition of omnigenity is investigated, and applied to the near-axis expansion of Garren & Boozer (Phys. Fluids B, vol. 3 (10), 1991a, pp. 2805–2821). Due in part to the particular analyticity requirements of the near-axis expansion, we find that, excluding quasi-symmetric solutions, only one type of omnigenity, namely quasi-isodynamicity, can be satisfied at first order in the distance from the magnetic axis. Our construction provides a parameterization of the space of such solutions, and the cylindrical reformulation and numerical method of Landreman & Sengupta (J. Plasma Phys., vol. 84 (6), 2018, 905840616); Landreman et al. (J. Plasma Phys., vol. 85 (1), 2019, 905850103), enables their efficient numerical construction.

Comment on ‘Propagation of solitary waves and shock wavelength in the pair plasma (J. Plasma Phys. 78, 525–529, 2012)’

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-516
Author(s):  
Frank Verheest
Keyword(s):  
Shock Wave ◽  
Solitary Wave ◽  
Solitary Waves ◽  
Plasma Phys ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Pair Plasma ◽  
Electrons And Positrons ◽  
Small Dissipation ◽  
Pseudopotential Approach ◽  
Wave Properties

In a recent paper ‘Propagation of solitary waves and shock wavelength in the pair plasma (J. Plasma Phys. 78, 525–529, 2012)’, Malekolkalami and Mohammadi investigate nonlinear electrostatic solitary waves in a plasma comprising adiabatic electrons and positrons, and a stationary ion background. The paper contains two parts: First, the solitary wave properties are discussed through a pseudopotential approach, and then the influence of a small dissipation is intuitively sketched without theoretical underpinning. Small dissipation is claimed to lead to a shock wave whose wavelength is determined by linear oscillator analysis. Unfortunately, there are errors and inconsistencies in both the parts, and their combination is incoherent.

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