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 …

A 5D gyrokinetic full-f global semi-Lagrangian code for flux-driven ion turbulence simulations

V Grandgirard, J Abiteboul, J Bigot… - Computer physics …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper addresses non-linear gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient (ITG)
turbulence in tokamak plasmas. The electrostatic GYSELA code is one of the few …

ORB5: a global electromagnetic gyrokinetic code using the PIC approach in toroidal geometry

E Lanti, N Ohana, N Tronko… - Computer Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents the current state of the global gyrokinetic code Orb 5 as an update of the
previous reference (Jolliet et al., 2007). The Orb 5 code solves the electromagnetic Vlasov …

On the validity of the local diffusive paradigm in turbulent plasma transport

G Dif-Pradalier, PH Diamond, V Grandgirard… - Physical Review E …, 2010 - APS
A systematic, constructive and self-consistent procedure to quantify nonlocal, nondiffusive
action at a distance in plasma turbulence is exposed and applied to turbulent heat fluxes …

Finding the Elusive Staircase in Magnetized Plasmas

G Dif-Pradalier, G Hornung, P Ghendrih, Y Sarazin… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Turbulence in hot magnetized plasmas is shown to generate permeable localized transport
barriers that globally organize into the so-called" E x B staircase"[G. Dif-Pradalier et al …

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 …

Electric field and turbulence in global Braginskii simulations across the ASDEX Upgrade edge and scrape-off layer

W Zholobenko, T Body, P Manz… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Turbulence simulations in diverted geometry across the edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) of
ASDEX Upgrade are performed with the GRILLIX code (Stegmeir et al 2019 Phys. Plasmas …

Screening of resonant magnetic perturbations by flows in tokamaks

M Becoulet, F Orain, P Maget, N Mellet, X Garbet… - Nuclear …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The non-linear reduced four-field RMHD model in cylindrical geometry was extended to
include plasma rotation, neoclassical poloidal viscosity and two fluid diamagnetic effects …

The E× B staircase of magnetised plasmas

G Dif-Pradalier, G Hornung, X Garbet… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that a class of near-marginal and low-collisional magnetised plasmas naturally
evolve into a globally organised state dubbed the'$\mathbf {E}\times\mathbf {B} $ staircase' …

Large scale dynamics in flux driven gyrokinetic turbulence

Y Sarazin, V Grandgirard, J Abiteboul, S Allfrey… - Nuclear …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The turbulent transport governed by the toroidal ion temperature gradient driven instability is
analysed with the full-f global gyrokinetic code GYSELA (Grandgirard et al 2007 Plasma …