Saturation of magnetised plasma turbulence by propagating zonal flows
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| author | Nies, Richard Parra, Felix Barnes, Michael Mandell, Noah Dorland, William |
| author_facet | Nies, Richard Parra, Felix Barnes, Michael Mandell, Noah Dorland, William |
| contents | Strongly driven ion-scale turbulence in tokamak plasmas is shown to be regulated by a new propagating zonal flow mode, the toroidal secondary mode, which is nonlinearly supported by the turbulence. The mode grows and propagates due to the combined effects of zonal flow shearing and advection by the magnetic drift. Above a threshold in the turbulence level, small-scale toroidal secondary modes become unstable and shear apart turbulent eddies, forcing the turbulence level to remain near the threshold. This threshold condition is used to derive scaling laws for the turbulent heat flux, fluctuation spectra, and zonal flow amplitude, which are validated in nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations and explain previous experimental observations. |
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| spellingShingle | Saturation of magnetised plasma turbulence by propagating zonal flows Nies, Richard Parra, Felix Barnes, Michael Mandell, Noah Dorland, William Plasma Physics Strongly driven ion-scale turbulence in tokamak plasmas is shown to be regulated by a new propagating zonal flow mode, the toroidal secondary mode, which is nonlinearly supported by the turbulence. The mode grows and propagates due to the combined effects of zonal flow shearing and advection by the magnetic drift. Above a threshold in the turbulence level, small-scale toroidal secondary modes become unstable and shear apart turbulent eddies, forcing the turbulence level to remain near the threshold. This threshold condition is used to derive scaling laws for the turbulent heat flux, fluctuation spectra, and zonal flow amplitude, which are validated in nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations and explain previous experimental observations. |
| title | Saturation of magnetised plasma turbulence by propagating zonal flows |
| topic | Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02283 |