Differential forms and canonical variables for drift motion in toroidal geometry
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 28 (6) , 2015-2016
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865379
Abstract
Differential forms provide a simple and powerful computational tool for finding canonical variables for drift motion in toroidal geometry. The method is easily applied to relativistic drift motion.Keywords
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