Abstract
We introduce modes of instantaneous optimal growth of free energy for the fully electromagnetic gyrokinetic equations. We demonstrate how these ‘optimal modes’ arise naturally from the free energy balance equation, allowing its convenient decomposition, and yielding a simple picture of energy flows. Optimal modes have a number of other favourable features, such as their low dimensionality, efficiency of computation and the fact that their growth rates provide a rigorous and ‘tight’ upper bound on both the nonlinear growth rate of energy, and the linear growth rate of traditional gyrokinetic (normal mode) instabilities. We provide simple closed-form solutions for the optimal growth rates in a number of asymptotic limits, and compare these with our previous bounds.
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