Transport control by coherent zonal flows in the core/edge transitional regime
arXiv:physics/0009058 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1223
Abstract
3D Braginskii turbulence simulations show that the energy flux in the core/edge transition region of a tokamak is strongly modulated - locally and on average - by radially propagating, nearly coherent sinusoidal or solitary zonal flows. The flows are geodesic acoustic modes (GAM), which are primarily driven by the Stringer-Winsor term. The flow amplitude together with the average anomalous transport sensitively depend on the GAM frequency and on the magnetic curvature acting on the flows, which could be influenced in a real tokamak, e.g., by shaping the plasma cross section. The local modulation of the turbulence by the flows and the excitation of the flows are due to wave-kinetic effects, which have been studied for the first time in a turbulence simulation.
5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRL
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