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20162025
most citedGyrokinetic treatment of a grazing angle magnetic field

20 citations · 44 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.plasm-ph2025

Characteristics of monotonic sheaths near a wall with grazing magnetic incidence

Alessandro Geraldini, Robert J. Ewart, Stephan Brunner +1

We consider a magnetised plasma in contact with an absorbing planar wall, where the angle between the magnetic field and the wall is small, (in radians) and the system…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 2 cited

On the importance of slow ions in the kinetic Bohm criterion

Alessandro Geraldini, Stephan Brunner

Between a plasma and a solid target lies a positively charged sheath of several Debye lengths in width, typically much smaller than the characteristic length scale …

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 3 cited

Sheath constraints on turbulent magnetised plasmas

Alessandro Geraldini, Stephan Brunner, Felix I. Parra

A solid target in contact with a plasma charges (negatively) to reflect the more mobile species (electrons) and thus keep the bulk plasma quasineutral. To shield the bulk plasma fr…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 4 cited

Sheath collapse at critical shallow angle due to kinetic effects

Robert J Ewart, Felix I Parra, Alessandro Geraldini

The Debye sheath is known to vanish completely in magnetised plasmas for a sufficiently small electron gyroradius and small angle between the magnetic field and the wall. This angl…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 9 cited

An adjoint method for determining the sensitivity of island size to magnetic field variations

Alessandro Geraldini, Matt Landreman, Elizabeth Paul

An adjoint method to calculate the gradient of island width in stellarators is presented and applied to a set of magnetic field configurations. The underlying method of calculation…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 2 cited

Large gyro-orbit model of ion velocity distribution in plasma near a wall in a grazing-angle magnetic field

Alessandro Geraldini

A model is presented for the ion distribution function in a plasma at a solid target with a magnetic field inclined at a small angle, (in radians), to the targe…