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2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2023★ 6 cited
Dynamics of rapidly spinning blob-filaments: fluid theory with a parallel kinetic extension
J. R. Myra, J. Cheng, S. E. Parker
Blob-filaments (or simply 'blobs') are coherent structures formed by turbulence and sustained by nonlinear processes in the edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) of tokamaks and other ma…
physics.plasm-ph2023★ 10 cited
Transport Barrier and Spinning Blob Dynamics in the Tokamak Edge
Junyi Cheng, James Myra, Seung-Hoe Ku +3
In this work, we investigate the dynamics of plasma blobs in the edge of magnetic confinement devices using a full-f gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code with X-point geometry. In sim…