Zonal flows in plasma—a review

PH Diamond, SI Itoh, K Itoh… - Plasma Physics and …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
A comprehensive review of zonal flow phenomena in plasmas is presented. While the
emphasis is on zonal flows in laboratory plasmas, planetary zonal flows are discussed as …

Foundations of nonlinear gyrokinetic theory

AJ Brizard, TS Hahm - Reviews of modern physics, 2007 - APS
Nonlinear gyrokinetic equations play a fundamental role in our understanding of the long-
time behavior of strongly magnetized plasmas. The foundations of modern nonlinear …

Plasma confinement and transport

EJ Doyle, WA Houlberg, Y Kamada… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The understanding and predictive capability of transport physics and plasma confinement is
reviewed from the perspective of achieving reactor-scale burning plasmas in the ITER …

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport

X Garbet, Y Idomura, L Villard, TH Watanabe - Nuclear Fusion, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This overview is an assessment of the gyrokinetic framework and simulations to compute
turbulent transport in fusion plasmas. It covers an introduction to the gyrokinetic theory, the …

Mesoscopic transport events and the breakdown of Fick's law for turbulent fluxes

TS Hahm, PH Diamond - Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 2018 - Springer
This paper presents a pedagogical review of the physics of mesoscopic transport events and
their role in the breakdown of Fick's Law for turbulent transport in magnetically confined …

Turbulence spreading into the linearly stable zone and transport scaling

TS Hahm, PH Diamond, Z Lin, K Itoh… - Plasma physics and …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the simplest problem of turbulence spreading corresponding to the spatio-
temporal propagation of a patch of turbulence from a region where it is locally excited to a …

A drift-kinetic Semi-Lagrangian 4D code for ion turbulence simulation

V Grandgirard, M Brunetti, P Bertrand, N Besse… - Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
A new code is presented here, named Gyrokinetic SEmi-LAgragian (GYSELA) code, which
solves 4D drift-kinetic equations for ion temperature gradient driven turbulence in a cylinder …

Gyro-kinetic simulation of global turbulent transport properties in tokamak experiments

WX Wang, Z Lin, WM Tang, WW Lee, S Ethier… - Physics of …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
A general geometry gyro-kinetic model for particle simulation of plasma turbulence in
tokamak experiments is described. It incorporates the comprehensive influence of …

Nonlinear gyrokinetic theory of toroidal momentum pinch

TS Hahm, PH Diamond, OD Gurcan, G Rewoldt - Physics of Plasmas, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The turbulent convective flux of the toroidal angular momentum density is derived using the
nonlinear toroidal gyrokinetic equation which conserves phase space density and energy …

Dynamics of turbulence spreading in magnetically confined plasmas

ÖD Gürcan, PH Diamond, TS Hahm, Z Lin - Physics of plasmas, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
A dynamical theory of turbulence spreading and nonlocal interaction phenomena is
presented. The basic model is derived using Fokker–Planck theory, and supported by wave …