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Statistical description of turbulent transport for flux driven toroidal plasmas

Plasma Physics 2017-06-13 v1

Abstract

A novel methodology to analyze non-Gaussian probability distribution functions (PDFs) of intermittent turbulent transport in global full-f gyrokinetic simulations is presented. In this work, the Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model is applied to time series data of intermittent turbulent heat transport to separate noise and oscillatory trends, allowing for the extraction of non-Gaussian features of the PDFs. It was shown that non-Gaussian tails of the PDFs from first principles based gyrokinetic simulations agree with an analytical estimation based on a two fluid model.

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@article{arxiv.1706.03639,
  title  = {Statistical description of turbulent transport for flux driven toroidal plasmas},
  author = {J. Anderson and K. Imadera and Y. Kishimoto and J. Q. Li and H. Nordman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03639},
  year   = {2017}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1008.3214