Geodesic acoustic modes in magnetic confinement devices

GD Conway, AI Smolyakov, T Ido - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are ubiquitous oscillatory flow phenomena observed in
toroidal magnetic confinement fusion plasmas, such as tokamaks and stellarators. They are …

Super-thermal particles in hot plasmas—Kinetic models, numerical solution strategies, and comparison to tokamak experiments

P Lauber - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
The excitation of collective instabilities by super-thermal particles in hot plasmas and the
related transport processes attract increasing interest due to their fundamental challenges …

Enhanced performance in fusion plasmas through turbulence suppression by megaelectronvolt ions

S Mazzi, J Garcia, D Zarzoso, YO Kazakov, J Ongena… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Alpha particles with energies on the order of megaelectronvolts will be the main source of
plasma heating in future magnetic confinement fusion reactors. Instead of heating fuel ions …

A 5D gyrokinetic full-f global semi-Lagrangian code for flux-driven ion turbulence simulations

V Grandgirard, J Abiteboul, J Bigot… - Computer physics …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper addresses non-linear gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient (ITG)
turbulence in tokamak plasmas. The electrostatic GYSELA code is one of the few …

Overview of tokamak turbulence stabilization by fast ions

J Citrin, P Mantica - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years tokamak experiments and modelling have increasingly indicated that the
interaction between suprathermal (fast) ions and thermal plasma can lead to a reduction of …

Towards an emerging understanding of non-locality phenomena and non-local transport

K Ida, Z Shi, HJ Sun, S Inagaki, K Kamiya… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, recent progress on experimental analysis and theoretical models for non-local
transport (non-Fickian fluxes in real space) is reviewed. The non-locality in the heat and …

The features of the global GAM in OH and ECRH plasmas in the T-10 tokamak

AV Melnikov, LG Eliseev, SV Perfilov… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Zonal flows and their high-frequency counterpart, the geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are
considered as a possible mechanism of the plasma turbulence self-regulation. In the T-10 …

Energetic particles and multi-scale dynamics in fusion plasmas

F Zonca, L Chen, S Briguglio, G Fogaccia… - Plasma Physics and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The role of energetic particles (EPs) in fusion plasmas is unique as they could act as
mediators of cross-scale couplings. More specifically, EPs can drive instabilities on the …

Strong destabilization of stable modes with a half-frequency associated with chirping geodesic acoustic modes in the large helical device

T Ido, K Itoh, M Osakabe, M Lesur, A Shimizu… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Abrupt and strong excitation of a mode has been observed when the frequency of a chirping
energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) reaches twice the geodesic …

Kinetic theory of geodesic acoustic modes in toroidal plasmas: a brief review

QIU Zhiyong, C Liu, F Zonca - Plasma Science and Technology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAM) are oscillating zonal structures unique to toroidal plasmas,
and have been extensively studied in the past decades due to their potential capabilities of …