The present status of zonal flow experiments is reviewed with the historical process to attain
the concept of zonal flows, which provides a new framework for understanding turbulence …

Experimental drift turbulence and zonal flow studies in magnetically confined plasma
experiments are reviewed. The origins of drift waves, transition to drift turbulence and drift …

Progress, since the ITER Physics Basis publication (ITER Physics Basis Editors et al 1999
Nucl. Fusion 39 2137–2664), in understanding the processes that will determine the …

A magnetic divertor1 in a tokamak provides heat and particle exhaust and shields the main
plasma from impurity contamination. Heat and particles are transported from the plasma …

Zonal flows (ZFs) and associated geodesic oscillations are turbulence-generated time-
varying E r× BT rigid poloidal plasma flows with finite radial extent. They are of major interest …

The nature of intermittency, long observed in magnetic fusion devices, was revisited lately
[G. Antar et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 065001 (2001)]. It was shown that intermittency is caused …

Recent measurements show that nondiffusive, intermittent transport of particles can play a
major role in the scrape-off-layer (SOL) of fusion experiments. A possible mechanism for fast …

Radial convection of isolated filamentary structures due to interchange motions in
magnetized plasmas is investigated. Following a basic discussion of vorticity generation …

Plasmas are created by heating gases through the absorption of ionizing radiation in the
visible through the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum and through collisional …

Abstract The TEXT/(TEXT-U) tokamak, formerly built and operated by the University of Texas
at Austin in USA, was dismantled and shipped to China in 2004, and renamed as the Joint …