Energy and particle confinement in tokamaks is usually anomalous, greatly exceeding
neoclassical predictions. It is desirable to develop an understanding of the underlying …

During the past two decades there have been substantial advances in magnetic fusion
research. On the experimental front, progress has been led by the mainline tokamaks, which …

A three‐dimensional study of the turbulence and sheared flow generated by the drift‐
resistive ballooning modes in tokamak edge plasmas has been completed. The fluid …

Transport is the outstanding physics issue in the quest for fusion by magnetic confinement.
In spite of the intrinsic difficulty, a great deal of progress has been made in the past 25 years …

A view of the latest experimental results and progress in the characterization and
understanding of edge turbulence is given. The development of new fluctuation analysis …

A new scheme to extend the triple Langmuir probe technique for the measurement of
electron temperature fluctuatio. ns and the fluctuation-driven transport has been developed …

Particle and energy transport in tokamaks and other toroidal confinement devices is
dominated by turbulence generated by flows and gradients. In order to understand and …

Intensified studies of plasma transport in toroidal plasmas over the past three to five years
have progressed through increased understanding in some areas and changed perceptions …

Bispectral analysis of Langmuir probe data indicates that coherent nonlinear coupling, in
addition to the noncoherent turbulent interactions, exists in the edge plasma of the tokamak …

A quasicoherent feature localized near the magnetic flux surface having a safety factor q= 3
has been detected by Langmuir probe and heavy ion beam probe (HIBP) measurements in …