A review of zonal flow experiments

A Fujisawa - Nuclear Fusion, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Fractal topology and strange kinetics: from percolation theory to problems in cosmic electrodynamics

LM Zelenyi, AV Milovanov - Physics-Uspekhi, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
The goal of this review is to outline some unconventional ideas behind new paradigms in
the modern theory of turbulence. Application of nonstandard, topological methods to …

Fractional kinetics for relaxation and superdiffusion in a magnetic field

AV Chechkin, VY Gonchar, M Szydl/owski - Physics of Plasmas, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
Fractional Fokker–Planck equation is proposed for the kinetic description of relaxation and
superdiffusion processes in constant magnetic and random electric fields. It is assumed that …

Secondary instability in drift wave turbulence as a mechanism for zonal flow and avalanche formation

PH Diamond, S Champeaux, M Malkov, A Das… - Nuclear …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
The article reports on recent developments in the theory of secondary instability in drift-ion
temperature gradient turbulence. Specifically, the article explores secondary instability as a …

Universal statistical properties of drift-interchange turbulence in TORPEX plasmas

B Labit, I Furno, A Fasoli, A Diallo, SH Müller… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
A unique parabolic relation is observed to link skewness and kurtosis of around ten
thousand density fluctuation signals, measured over the whole cross section of a toroidal …

Self-organized criticality and the dynamics of near-marginal turbulent transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

R Sanchez, DE Newman - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The high plasma temperatures expected at reactor conditions in magnetic confinement
fusion toroidal devices suggest that near-marginal operation could be a reality in future …

Probabilistic finite-size transport models for fusion: Anomalous transport and scaling laws

BP Van Milligen, R Sanchez, BA Carreras - Physics of Plasmas, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Transport in fusion plasmas in the low confinement mode is characterized by several
remarkable properties: the anomalous scaling of transport with system size, stiff (or …

Anomalous diffusion and fractional stable distributions

VV Uchaikin - Journal of experimental and theoretical physics, 2003 - Springer
A new set of distributions, called fractional stable distributions, is described. A subset of this
set is represented by stable laws, while its particular case is the Gaussian distribution. These …

Statistical study for ITG turbulent transport in flux-driven tokamak plasmas based on global gyro-kinetic simulation

W Wang, Y Kishimoto, K Imadera, HR Liu, JQ Li… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Flux-driven ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence and associated transport regulated by
non-local and non-diffusive processes are investigated based on GKNET simulations in a …

Experimental studies of structural bifurcation in stellarator plasmas

A Fujisawa - Plasma physics and controlled fusion, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
This review presents experimental studies on improved confinement (IC) modes observed
mainly in stellarator plasmas. The IC modes result from structural bifurcation, often …