A sandpile model with tokamak-like enhanced confinement phenomenology
Plasma Physics
2009-11-06 v2 General Physics
Abstract
Confinement phenomenology characteristic of magnetically confined plasmas emerges naturally from a simple sandpile algorithm when the parameter controlling redistribution scalelength is varied. Close analogues are found for enhanced confinement, edge pedestals, and edge localised modes (ELMs), and for the qualitative correlations between them. These results suggest that tokamak observations of avalanching transport are deeply linked to the existence of enhanced confinement and ELMs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0010032,
title = {A sandpile model with tokamak-like enhanced confinement phenomenology},
author = {S. C. Chapman and R. O. Dendy and B. Hnat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0010032},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Manuscript is revtex (latex) 1 file, 7 postscript figures Revised version is final version accepted for publication in PRL Revisions are minor