Geodesic acoustic modes in magnetic confinement devices

GD Conway, AI Smolyakov, T Ido - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are ubiquitous oscillatory flow phenomena observed in
toroidal magnetic confinement fusion plasmas, such as tokamaks and stellarators. They are …

A review of zonal flow experiments

A Fujisawa - Nuclear Fusion, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The present status of zonal flow experiments is reviewed with the historical process to attain
the concept of zonal flows, which provides a new framework for understanding turbulence …

How is turbulence intensity determined by macroscopic variables in a toroidal plasma?

S Inagaki, T Tokuzawa, N Tamura, SI Itoh… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We report observations of the dynamic response of micro-fluctuations and turbulent flux to a
low-frequency heating power modulation in the Large Helical Device. The responses of heat …

Geodesic oscillations and the weakly coherent mode in the I-mode of ASDEX Upgrade

P Manz, P Lauber, VE Nikolaeva, T Happel… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Density fluctuations in I-mode discharges in ASDEX Upgrade are studied. The I-mode
specific weakly coherent mode (WCM) appears at the transition from the L to I-mode. The …

Observation of long-distance radial correlation in toroidal plasma turbulence

S Inagaki, T Tokuzawa, K Itoh, K Ida, SI Itoh, N Tamura… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
This Letter presents the discovery of macroscale electron temperature fluctuations with a
long radial correlation length comparable to the plasma minor radius in a toroidal plasma …

Kinetic theory of geodesic acoustic modes in toroidal plasmas: a brief review

QIU Zhiyong, C Liu, F Zonca - Plasma Science and Technology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAM) are oscillating zonal structures unique to toroidal plasmas,
and have been extensively studied in the past decades due to their potential capabilities of …

Spectral features of the geodesic acoustic mode and its interaction with turbulence in a tokamak plasma

T Lan, AD Liu, CX Yu, LW Yan, WY Hong, KJ Zhao… - Physics of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
The three-dimensional wavenumber and frequency spectrum for the geodesic acoustic
mode (GAM) has been measured in the HuanLiuqi-2A tokamak for the first time. The …

Spectral characteristics of geodesic acoustic mode in the HL-2A tokamak

T Lan, AD Liu, CX Yu, LW Yan, WY Hong… - Plasma Physics and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The spectral characteristics of the geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) are investigated
systematically by applying the two-point correlation technique and bispectral analysis to …

Potential fluctuation associated with the energetic-particle-induced geodesic acoustic mode in the Large Helical Device

T Ido, A Shimizu, M Nishiura, S Nakamura… - Nuclear …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAM) driven by energetic particles are observed in the Large
Helical Device (LHD) by a heavy ion beam probe. The GAM localizes near the magnetic …

Trapped electron damping of geodesic acoustic mode

HS Zhang, Z Lin - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Global gyrokinetic particle simulation finds that the collisionless damping rate of the
geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) in tokamak is greatly enhanced by trapped electrons in the …