A blob-filament (or simply “blob”) is a magnetic-field-aligned plasma structure which is
considerably denser than the surrounding background plasma and highly localized in the …

This paper reviews measurements of edge plasma turbulence in toroidal magnetic fusion
devices with an emphasis on recent results in tokamaks. The dominant feature of edge …

In this paper we review some theoretical aspects of the dynamics of the mesoscale filaments
extending along the magnetic field lines in the edge plasma, which are often called 'blobs' …

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

A two-region model is proposed to study the effect of collisionality and magnetic geometry
on electrostatic turbulence and on the propagation of filamentary coherent structures (blobs) …

Fluctuations and particle transport in the scrape-off layer of TCV plasmas have been
investigated by probe measurements and direct comparison with two-dimensional …

The use of low-dimensional dynamical systems as reduced models for plasma dynamics is
useful as solving an initial value problem requires much less computational resources than …

High-speed high-spatial-resolution data obtained by the gas puff imaging (GPI) diagnostic
on the National Spherical Torus Experiment [M. Ono, MG Bell, RE Bell et al Plasma Phys …

Probe measurements of electrostatic plasma fluctuations in the scrape-off layer (SOL) of the
TCV tokamak are compared with the results from two-dimensional interchange turbulence …

Single-point measurements of fluctuations in the scrape-off layer of magnetized plasmas are
generally found to be dominated by large-amplitude bursts which are associated with radial …