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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

Scaling laws for ion temperature gradient driven turbulence in magnetized toroidal plasmas are derived and compared with direct numerical simulations. Predicted dependences of turbulence fluctuation amplitudes, spatial scales, and resulting…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Barnes , F. I. Parra , A. A. Schekochihin

Understanding the multi-scale neoclassical and turbulence physics in the edge region (pedestal + scrape-off layer) is required in order to reliably predict performance in future fusion devices. We explore turbulent characteristics in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 R. M. Churchill , C. S. Chang , S. Ku

Density inhomogeneities are ubiquitous in space and astrophysical plasmas, in particular at contact boundaries between different media. They often correspond to regions that exhibits strong dynamics on a wide range of spatial and temporal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 F. Lavorenti , P. Henri , F. Califano , S. Aizawa , N. André

Neoclassical transport in the presence of non-axisymmetric magnetic fields causes a toroidal torque known as neoclassical toroidal viscosity (NTV). The toroidal symmetry of ITER will be broken by the finite number of toroidal field coils…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 E. J. Paul , M. Landreman , F. M. Poli , D. A. Spong , H. M. Smith , W. Dorland

We investigate properties of turbulence and turbulent transport of non-inertial particles described in terms of turbulent thermal diffusion in strongly inhomogeneous and anisotropic convection forced by two similar turbulence generators…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-17 E. Zarbib , E. Elmakies , O. Shildkrot , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii

In this paper, the nonlinear evolution of a bistable interstellar medium is investigated using two-dimensional simulations with a realistic cooling rate, thermal conduction, and physical viscosity. The calculations are performed using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Drift ordered fluid models are widely applied in studies of low-frequency turbulence in the edge and scrape-off layer regions of magnetically confined plasmas. Here, we show how collisional transport across the magnetic field is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Jens Madsen , Volker Naulin , Anders Henry Nielsen , Jens Juul Rasmussen

The collision of magnetic reconnection jets is studied by means of a three dimensional numerical simulation at kinetic scale, in the presence of a strong guide field. We show that turbulence develops due to the jets collision producing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 F. Pucci , W. H. Matthaeus , A. Chasapis , S. Servidio , L. Sorriso-Valvo , V. Olshevsky , D. L. Newman , M. V. Goldman , G. Lapenta

The turbulent transport of main ion and trace impurities in a tokamak device in the presence of steep electron density gradients has been studied. The parameters are chosen for trapped electron (TE) mode turbulence, driven primarily by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas Skyman , Hans Nordman , P. I. Strand

Turbulence in the weakly collisional intracluster medium of galaxies (ICM) is able to generate strong thermal velocity anisotropies in the ions (with respect to the local magnetic field direction), if the magnetic moment of the particles is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 R. Santos-Lima , H. Yan , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

We use a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a geometrically thin accretion disk to investigate the locality and detailed structure of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI). The model disk has an aspect ratio $H…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kris Beckwith , Philip J. Armitage , Jacob B. Simon

The distribution of metals and temperature in the intracluster medium (ICM) provides key insights into galaxy cluster evolution, revealing information about chemical enrichment and heating and cooling processes, respectively. To access this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-01 Yiwei Zhang , Xun Shi , Daisuke Nagai

We present full 2 Pi global 3-D stratified MHD simulations of accretion disks. We interpret our results in the context of proto-planetary disks. We investigate the turbulence driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) using the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Flock , N. Dzyurkevich , H. Klahr , N. J. Turner , Th. Henning

The energy gradient theory is used to study the instability of Taylor-Couette flow between concentric rotating cylinders. This theory has been proposed in our previous works. In our previous studies, the energy gradient theory was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-13 Hua-Shu Dou , Boo Cheong Khoo , Koon Seng Yeo

The generation of intrinsic rotation by turbulence and neoclassical effects in tokamaks is considered. To obtain the complex dependences observed in experiments, it is necessary to have a model of the radial flux of momentum that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-13 Felix I. Parra , Michael Barnes , Ivan Calvo , Peter J. Catto

Since the DIII-D resonant magnetic perturbation experiment [Nucl. Fusion $\bm{59}$, 126010 (2019)] suggests that the neoclassical toroidal viscosity due to the collisional effects associated with the non-resonant magnetic perturbations is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Jinxiang You , Shaojie Wang

How thermal equilibrium is determined in a weakly collisional plasma is a fundamental question in plasma physics. This letter shows that the turbulence driven by the magnetic curvature and density gradient tends to equilibrate the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Ryusuke Numata

Previous studies of phase mixing of ion cyclotron (IC), Alfv\'enic, waves in the collisionless regime have established the generation of parallel electric field and hence acceleration of electrons in the regions of transverse density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-23 D. Tsiklauri , T. Haruki

It is shown that the current-induced torques between a ferromagnetic layer and an antiferromagnetic layer with a compensated interface vanish when the ferromagnet is aligned with an axis of spin-rotation symmetry of the antiferromagnet. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Karthik Prakya , Adrian Popescu , Paul M. Haney