Galactic Bar Resonances with Diffusion: An Analytic Model with Implications for Bar–Dark Matter Halo Dynamical Friction

C Hamilton, EA Tolman, L Arzamasskiy… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The secular evolution of disk galaxies is largely driven by resonances between the orbits of"
particles"(stars or dark matter) and the rotation of non-axisymmetric features (spiral arms or a …

Nonlinear dynamics and transport driven by energetic particle instabilities using a gyro-Landau closure model

DA Spong, MA Van Zeeland, WW Heidbrink… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Energetic particle (EP) destabilized Alfvén eigenmode (AE) instabilities are simulated for a
DIII-D experimental case with a pulsed neutral beam using a gyro-Landau moments model …

Effect of the neutral beam injector operational regime on the Alfven eigenmode saturation phase in DIII-D plasma

J Varela, DA Spong, L Garcia, Y Ghai… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of the neutral beam injector (NBI) operation
regime on the saturation phase of the Alfven Eigenmodes (AEs) in DIII-D plasma. The …

Microturbulence-mediated route for energetic ion transport and Alfvénic mode amplitude oscillations in tokamaks

NN Gorelenkov, VN Duarte - Physics Letters A, 2021 - Elsevier
New regimes of Alfvén eigenmode (AE) induced fast ion transport in tokamak plasmas are
reported, in which microturbulence plays the role of a mediator of fast ion relaxation …

Collisional resonance function in discrete-resonance quasilinear plasma systems

VN Duarte, NN Gorelenkov, RB White, HL Berk - Physics of Plasmas, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
A method is developed to analytically determine the resonance broadening function in
quasilinear theory from first principles, due to either Krook or Fokker-Planck scattering …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of radial transport induced by Alfvénic resonances in tokamaks and stellarators

RB White, VN Duarte - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In a symmetric plasma confinement device, a perturbation such as an Alfvén mode produces
a resonance island which flattens the local energy gradient due to induced rotation about …

[HTML][HTML] Collisional enhancement of energetic particle Alfvénic resonance width in tokamaks

RB White, VN Duarte, NN Gorelenkov, G Meng - Physics of Plasmas, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The phase-space structure of resonances between fast ions and an Alfvénic mode and the
associated modification of density profiles in tokamaks are studied as a function of particle …

Analytic quasi-steady evolution of marginally unstable kinetic plasma instabilities in the presence of drag and scattering

JB Lestz, VN Duarte - Physics of Plasmas, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The 1D bump-on-tail problem is studied in order to determine the influence of drag on quasi-
steady solutions near marginal stability (⁠ 1− γ d/γ L≪ 1⁠) when effective collisions are …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation of Alfvénic avalanche onset in NSTX

RB White, VN Duarte, NN Gorelenkov… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In some tokamak discharges, a number of Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) have been observed to
cause a large-scale collapse of the high energy particle distribution, a phenomenon referred …

Shifting and splitting of resonance lines due to dynamical friction in plasmas

VN Duarte, JB Lestz, NN Gorelenkov, RB White - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
A quasilinear plasma transport theory that incorporates Fokker-Planck dynamical friction
(drag) and pitch angle scattering is self-consistently derived from first principles for an …