Approximation de rayon de Larmor fini pour les plasmas magnétisés collisionnels

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This Note concerns the derivation of the finite Larmor radius approximation, when collisions are taken into account. We concentrate on the Boltzmann relaxation operator whose study reduces to the gyroaverage computation of velocity convolutions. We emphasize that the resulting gyroaverage collision kernel is no local in space anymore and that the standard physical properties (i.e., mass balance, entropy inequality) hold true only globally in space and velocity. This is a first step in this direction and it will allow us to handle more realistic collisional mechanisms, like the Fokker–Planck or Fokker–Planck–Landau kernels (Bostan and Caldini-Queiros (submitted for publication) [3]).