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Collisionless trapped-electron mode (CTEM) turbulence is an important contributor to heat and particle transport in fusion devices. The ITG/TEM fluid models are rarely treated analytically, due to the large number of transport channels…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 M. Leconte , Lei Qi , J. Anderson

The presence of impurities is considered in gyrokinetic calculations of ion temperature gradient (ITG) instabilities and turbulence in the reversed field pinch device RFX-mod. This device usually exhibits hollow Carbon/Oxygen profiles,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 I. Predebon , L. Carraro , C. Angioni

Electrostatic gyrokinetic instabilities and turbulence in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator are studied. Particular attention is paid to the ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) instability and its character close to marginal stability…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 L. Podavini , A. Zocco , J. M. García-Regaña , M. Barnes , F. I. Parra , A. Mishchenko , P. Helander

Turbulent transport remains one of the principal obstacles to achieving efficient magnetic confinement in fusion devices. Two of the dominant drivers of the turbulence are microscale instabilities fuelled by electron- and ion-temperature…

The impact of impurities on the generation of zonal flow (ZF) driven by collisonless trapped electron mode (CTEM) turbulence in deuterium (D)-tritium (T) plasmas is investigated. The expression for ZF growth rate with impurities is derived…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Weixin Guo , Lu Wang , Ge Zhuang

We investigate the ExB diffusion of fusion born \alpha particles in tokamak plasmas. We determine the transport regimes for a realistic model that has the characteristics of the ion temperature gradient (ITG) or of the trapped electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Croitoru , D. I. Palade , M Vlad , F Spineanu

We study the impact of impurities on turbulence driven intrinsic rotation (via residual stress) in the context of the quasi-linear theory. A two-fluid formulation for main and impurity ions is employed to study ion temperature gradient…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 S. H. Ko , Hogun Jhang , R. Singh

Both the parallel residual stress and parallel turbulent acceleration driven by electrostatic collisionsless trapped electron mode (CTEM) turbulence are calculated analytically using gyrokinetic theory. Quasilinear results show that the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Lu Wang , Shuitao Peng , P. H. Diamond

The turbulent transport of impurity or minority species, as for example Tritium, is investigated in drift-Alfv\'en edge turbulence. The full effects of perpendicular and parallel convection are kept for the impurity species. The impurity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Volker Naulin

The impact of lithium impurities on the microstability and turbulent transport characteristics in the core of a typical FTU Liquid Lithium Limiter (LLL)(Mazzitelli et al., Nucl. Fusion, 2011) discharge during the density ramp-up phase is…

Non-linear local electromagnetic gyrokinetic turbulence simulations of the ITER standard scenario H-mode are presented for the q=3/2 and q=2 surfaces. The turbulent transport is examined in regions of velocity space characteristic of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 F. J. Casson , E. Poli , C. Angioni , R. Buchholz , A. G. Peeters

Turbulent transport of trace impurities impurities in the edge and scrape-off-layer of tokamak fusion plasmas is modelled by three dimensional electromagnetic gyrofluid computations including evolution of plasma profile gradients. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 Alexander Kendl

We study electrical and thermoelectric transport properties of the surface state of the topological insulator and graphene in the presence of randomly distributed impurities. For finite impurity strength, the dependence of the transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-18 Sung-Po Chao , Vivek Aji

The quasilinear intrinsic parallel flow drive including parallel residual stress, kinetic stress, cross Maxwell stress and parallel turbulent acceleration by electromagnetic ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence is calculated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Shuitao Peng , Lu Wang , Yuan Pan

The turbulent transport of impurity particles in plasma edge turbulence is investigated. The impurities are modeled as a passive fluid advected by the electric and polarization drifts, while the ambient plasma turbulence is modeled using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Priego , O. E. Garcia , V. Naulin , J. Juul Rasmussen

Naturally stable to ELMs, and with widths larger than EPED predictions, the I-modes are an excellent laboratory for investigating the role of drift micro-instabilities in pedestals since I-mode pedestal are not "limited" by MHD…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Xing Liu , M. Kotschenreuther , D. R. Hatch , S. M. Mahajan , J. W. Hughes , A. E. Hubbard

We investigate the effect due to background impurities embedded in the region of two-dimensional electron gases to the magnetotransport. These impurities are achieved by homogeneously incorporating Si atoms in single quantum wells of high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 E. P. Rugeramigabo , L. Bockhorn , R. J. Haug

We investigate edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) turbulence and transport using the spectrally accelerated full-f gyrokinetic (GK) code GENE-X, recently introduced in [B. J. Frei et al., arXiv:2411.09232 (2024)]. Extending previous work on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 B. J. Frei , P. Ulbl , C. Pitzal , W. Zholobenko , F. Jenko

Turbulent transport is a decisive factor in determining the pedestal structure of H-modes. Here, we present the first comprehensive characterization of gyrokinetic turbulent transport in a JET hybrid H-mode pedestal. Local, linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 L. A. Leppin , T. Görler , L. Frassinetti , S. Saarelma , J. Hobirk , F. Jenko , JET contributors

We study the Hall response of topologically-trivial mobile impurities (Fermi polarons) interacting weakly with majority fermions forming a Chern-insulator background. This setting involves a rich interplay between the genuine many-body…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-09 D. Pimenov , A. Camacho-Guardian , N. Goldman , P. Massignan , G. M. Bruun , M. Goldstein