Dynamics of shear Alfvén waves and energetic particles are crucial to the performance of
burning fusion plasmas. This article reviews linear as well as nonlinear physics of shear …

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 …

A general theoretical framework for investigating the nonlinear dynamics of phase space
zonal structures is presented in this work. It is then, more specifically, applied to the limit …

The theoretical framework of the general fishbone-like dispersion relation (GFLDR),
presented and discussed in the Companion Paper [Phys. Plasmas 21, 072120 (2014)], is …

Zonal flows and, more generally, zonal structures are known to play important self-regulatory
roles in the dynamics of microscopic drift-wave-type turbulences. Since toroidal Alfvén …

A unified theoretical framework is presented for analyzing various branches of drift Alfvén
waves and describing their linear and nonlinear behaviors, covering a wide range of spatial …

One of the major challenges in magnetic confinement thermonuclear fusion research
concerns the confinement of the energetic particles (EPs) produced by fusion reactions …

Abstract We present a STRUcture-Preserving HYbrid code-STRUPHY-for the simulation of
magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) waves interacting with a population of energetic particles far …

Fast particles in fusion plasmas may drive Alfvén modes unstable leading to fluctuations of
the internal electromagnetic fields and potential loss of particles. Such instabilities can have …

We present a series of numerical simulation experiments set up to illustrate the fundamental
physics processes underlying the nonlinear dynamics of Alfvénic modes resonantly excited …