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 …

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 …

Study of interactions between GAMs and broadband turbulence in the T-10 tokamak

AV Melnikov, LG Eliseev, SE Lysenko… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
New findings in study of geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) on the T-10 tokamak since the
last IAEA FEC 2014 are described. The broadband fluctuations of potential φ and electron …

Nonlinear wave interactions in a transitional hypersonic boundary layer

C Zhang, Z Shi - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The linear and nonlinear evolutions and breakdown of the second modes in hypersonic
boundary layers (HBLs) on a flared cone are investigated using Rayleigh-scattering flow …

Characteristics of edge temperature ring oscillation during the stationary improved confinement mode in EAST

AD Liu, XL Zou, XM Zhong, YT Song, MK Han… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The I-mode is a natural edge localized mode (ELM)-free regime with H-mode-like improved
energy confinement and L-mode-like particle confinement, making it an attractive scenario …

Excitation of kinetic geodesic acoustic modes by drift waves in nonuniform plasmas

Z Qiu, L Chen, F Zonca - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Effects of system nonuniformities and kinetic dispersiveness on the spontaneous excitation
of Geodesic Acoustic Mode (GAM) by Drift Wave (DW) turbulence are investigated based on …

Soliton generation and drift wave turbulence spreading via geodesic acoustic mode excitation

N Chen, S Wei, G Wei, Z Qiu - Plasma Physics and Controlled …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The two-field equations that govern fully nonlinear dynamics of the drift wave (DW) and
geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) interaction in toroidal geometry are derived within the …

Global turbulence features across marginality and non-local pedestal-core interactions

L Villard, BF McMillan, E Lanti, N Ohana… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatially non-local aspects of turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas are examined with
global gyrokinetic simulations using the ORB5 code. Inspired by very accurate …

Propagation direction of geodesic acoustic modes driven by drift wave turbulence

M Sasaki, K Itoh, T Kobayashi, N Kasuya… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Selection rule of the radial propagation direction of geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) is
investigated. Here, we study the influence of nonlinear coupling with drift wave turbulence …

Exciting and propagating characteristics of two coexisting kinetic geodesic acoustic modes in the edge of plasma

DF Kong, AD Liu, T Lan, CX Yu, J Cheng, ZY Qiu… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Coexisting dual kinetic geodesic acoustic modes (KGAMs) with similar characteristics have
been observed with Langmuir probe arrays in the edge plasma of HL-2A tokamak with low …