Limitations, Insights and Improvements to Gyrokinetics
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For a tokamak, we consider gyrokinetic quasineutrality limitations when evaluating the axisymmetric radial electric field; provide an insight by considering the gyrokinetic entropy production restriction on an ion temperature pedestal like that of ITER; and an present an improved hybrid gyrokinetic-fluid treatment valid on slowly evolving transport time scales.
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