Self-organized criticality and the dynamics of near-marginal turbulent transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

R Sanchez, DE Newman - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The high plasma temperatures expected at reactor conditions in magnetic confinement
fusion toroidal devices suggest that near-marginal operation could be a reality in future …

First-passage properties of asymmetric Lévy flights

A Padash, AV Chechkin, B Dybiec… - Journal of Physics A …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Lévy flights are paradigmatic generalised random walk processes, in which the independent
stationary increments—the'jump lengths'—are drawn from an-stable jump length distribution …

Parameter estimation of superdiffusive motion of energetic particles upstream of heliospheric shocks

S Perri, G Zimbardo, F Effenberger… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. In-situ spacecraft observations recently suggested that the transport of energetic
particles accelerated at heliospheric shocks can be anomalous, ie the mean square …

Non-Fickian diffusion of methanol in mesoporous media: geometrical restrictions or adsorption-induced?

A Zhokh, P Strizhak - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The methanol mass transfer in the mesoporous silica and alumina/zeolite H-ZSM-5 grains
has been studied. We demonstrate that the methanol diffusion is characterized as a time …

Superdiffusive transport in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas

G Zimbardo, E Amato, A Bovet, F Effenberger… - Journal of Plasma …, 2015 - cambridge.org
In the last few years it has been demonstrated, both by data analysis and by numerical
simulations, that the transport of energetic particles in the presence of magnetic turbulence …

Plasma turbulence, suprathermal ion dynamics and code validation on the basic plasma physics device TORPEX

I Furno, F Avino, A Bovet, A Diallo, A Fasoli… - Journal of Plasma …, 2015 - cambridge.org
The TORPEX basic plasma physics device at the Center for Plasma Physics Research
(CRPP) in Lausanne, Switzerland is described. In TORPEX, simple magnetized toroidal …

Shortcuts to adiabaticity for Lévy processes in harmonic traps

M Baldovin, D Guéry-Odelin, E Trizac - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Lévy stochastic processes, with noise distributed according to a Lévy stable distribution, are
ubiquitous in science. Focusing on the case of a particle trapped in an external harmonic …

Nondiffusive transport regimes for suprathermal ions in turbulent plasmas

A Bovet, A Fasoli, P Ricci, I Furno, K Gustafson - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
The understanding of the transport of suprathermal ions in the presence of turbulence is
important for fusion plasmas in the burning regime that will characterize reactors, and for …

Solving the backward problem for space-fractional diffusion equation by a fractional Tikhonov regularization method

GH Zheng, QG Zhang - Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider the backward problem for diffusion equation with space-fractional
Laplacian. In order to overcome the ill-posedness of the backward problem, we propose a …

On the correlation between Kappa and Lévy stable distributions

AM Tawfik, IS Elkamash - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2022 - Elsevier
This article investigates the correlation between the Kappa and Lévy distributions via two
approaches of the Klein–Kramers equation. The first approach illustrates the velocity …