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 …

25 years of self-organized criticality: space and laboratory plasmas

AS Sharma, MJ Aschwanden, NB Crosby… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
Studies of complexity in extended dissipative dynamical systems, in nature and in
laboratory, require multiple approaches and the framework of self-organized criticality (SOC) …

Nonextensivity and natural time: The case of seismicity

NV Sarlis, ES Skordas, PA Varotsos - … E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter …, 2010 - APS
Nonextensive statistical mechanics, pioneered by Tsallis, has recently achieved a
generalization of the Gutenberg-Richter law for earthquakes. This remarkable generalization …

Comparison of gradient and flux driven gyro-kinetic turbulent transport

F Rath, AG Peeters, R Buchholz, SR Grosshauser… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Flux and gradient driven ion temperature gradient turbulence in tokamak geometry and for
Cyclone base case parameters are compared in the local limit using the same underlying …

Tsallis statistics and magnetospheric self-organization

GP Pavlos, LP Karakatsanis, MN Xenakis… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this study we use Tsallis non-extensive statistics for a new understanding the
magnetospheric dynamics and the magnetospheric self-organization during quiet and …

Evidence of enhanced self-organized criticality (SOC) dynamics during the radially non-local transient transport in the HL-2A tokamak

O Pan, Y Xu, C Hidalgo, WL Zhong, ZB Shi, XQ Ji… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Self-organized criticality (SOC) dynamics have been investigated in non-local transport
regimes induced by the supersonic molecular beam injection in the HL-2A tokamak …

Intermittency and multifractional Brownian character of geomagnetic time series

G Consolini, R De Marco… - Nonlinear Processes in …, 2013 - npg.copernicus.org
The Earth's magnetosphere exhibits a complex behavior in response to the solar wind
conditions. This behavior, which is described in terms of mutifractional Brownian motions …

Fluctuation-variable correlation as early warning signals of non-equilibrium critical transitions

J Bian, T Huang, X Zhang, C Wang, Y Zhang… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2025 - Elsevier
Complex systems exhibit critical transitions, where the system shifts to a new and radically
different state due to external or internal influences. Numerous studies have suggested …

Global low dimensional seismic chaos in the Hellenic region

AC Iliopoulos, GP Pavlos - International Journal of Bifurcation and …, 2010 - World Scientific
In this study, we present results concerning seismogenesis in the Hellenic region (land and
sea of Greece), applying nonlinear analysis to an earthquake time series. The model of the …

Intermittency of storms and substorms: is it related to the critical behaviour?

P Dobias, JA Wanliss - Annales Geophysicae, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
Intermittency is one of the possible means of quantifying dynamics of fractal processes. In
this paper, the analysis of the intermittency of magnetospheric storms and substorms is …