Generalized MHD equilibria in the presence of shear flow

Purpose of the investigation is the kinetic analysis of the conditions of the basic physical properties of suitably generalized toroidal MHD equilibria in the presence of strong flows as well as nonlinear e.m. perturbations. The equilibria here concerned about are defined in terms of a kinetic equilibrium distribution function, i.e., a gyrokinetic distribution function, which is appropriately close to a local drifted Maxwellian distribution and is function of the relevant maximal adiabatic invariants, to be suitably defined. (orig.)