Effects of finite poloidal gyroradius, shaping, and collisions on the zonal flow residual
Effects of finite poloidal gyroradius, shaping, and collisions on the zonal flow residual
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DOI:
10.1063/1.2718519
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发表时间:
2007-05
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Yong Xiao;P. Catto;W. Dorland
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作者:
Yong Xiao;P. Catto;W. Dorland
Zonal flow helps reduce and regulate the turbulent transport level in tokamaks. Rosenbluth and Hinton have shown that zonal flow damps to a nonvanishing residual level in collisionless [M. Rosenbluth and F. Hinton, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 724 (1998)] and collisional [F. Hinton and M. Rosenbluth, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 41, A653 (1999)] banana regime plasmas. Recent zonal flow advances are summarized including the evaluation of the effects on the zonal flow residual by plasma cross-section shaping, shorter wavelengths including those less than an electron gyroradius, and arbitrary ion collisionality relative to the zonal low frequency. In addition to giving a brief summary of these new developments, the analytic results are compared with GS2 numerical simulations [M. Kotschenreuther, G. Rewoldt, and W. Tang, Comput. Phys. Commun. 88, 128 (1991)] to demonstrate their value as benchmarks for turbulence codes.