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 …

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 …

Full-f gyrokinetic particle simulation of centrally heated global ITG turbulence from magnetic axis to edge pedestal top in a realistic tokamak geometry

S Ku, CS Chang, PH Diamond - Nuclear Fusion, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Global electrostatic ITG turbulence physics, together with background dynamics, has been
simulated in a realistic tokamak core geometry using XGC1, a full-function 5D gyrokinetic …

Towards an emerging understanding of non-locality phenomena and non-local transport

K Ida, Z Shi, HJ Sun, S Inagaki, K Kamiya… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, recent progress on experimental analysis and theoretical models for non-local
transport (non-Fickian fluxes in real space) is reviewed. The non-locality in the heat and …

Spatiotemporal Structures of Edge Limit-Cycle Oscillation before L-to-H<? format?> Transition in the JFT-2M Tokamak

T Kobayashi, K Itoh, T Ido, K Kamiya, SI Itoh, Y Miura… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
In this Letter, we report analyses of spatiotemporal dynamics of turbulence and structure in
the limit-cycle oscillation (LCO) that precedes an L-to-H transition. Zonal flows are not …

Experimental evidence of intrinsic current generation by turbulence in stationary tokamak plasmas

E Li, XL Zou, LQ Xu, YQ Chu, X Feng, H Lian, HQ Liu… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
High-β θ e (a ratio of the electron thermal pressure to the poloidal magnetic pressure) steady-
state long-pulse plasmas with steep central electron temperature gradient are achieved in …

Transport of parallel momentum by collisionless drift wave turbulence

PH Diamond, CJ McDevitt, ÖD Gürcan, TS Hahm… - Physics of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents a novel, unified approach to the theory of turbulent transport of parallel
momentum by collisionless drift waves. The physics of resonant and nonresonant off …

Zonal flows and pattern formation

ÖD Gürcan, PH Diamond - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The general aspects of zonal flow physics, their formation, damping and interplay with quasi
two dimensional turbulence are explained in the context of magnetized plasmas and quasi …

Truncation effects in superdiffusive front propagation with Lévy flights

D del-Castillo-Negrete - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2009 - APS
A numerical and analytical study of the role of exponentially truncated Lévy flights in the
superdiffusive propagation of fronts in reaction-diffusion systems is presented. The study is …