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Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Yuejiang Shi

We present test-particle simulations of electrons during a nonlinear MHD simulation of a type-I edge localized mode (ELM) to explore the effect of an eruptive plasma filament on the kinetic level. The electrons are moderately heated and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Heinz Isliker , Andres Cathey , Matthias Hoelzl , Stanislas Pamela , Loukas Vlahos

Nonlinear electromagnetic stabilization by suprathermal pressure gradients found in specific regimes is shown to be a key factor in reducing tokamak microturbulence, augmenting significantly the thermal pressure electromagnetic…

The transport of the energy contained in electrons, both thermal and suprathermal, in solar flares plays a key role in our understanding of many aspects of the flare phenomenon, from the spatial distribution of hard X-ray emission to global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Nicolas H. Bian , Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie

The kinetic effects of electrons are important to long wavelength magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)instabilities and short wavelength drift-Alfvenic instabilities responsible for turbulence transport in magnetized plasmas, since the non-adiabatic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 J. Bao , D. Liu , Z. Lin

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

This study investigates the Lagrangian properties of ion turbulent transport driven by drift-type turbulence in tokamak plasmas. Despite the compressible and inhomogeneous nature of Eulerian gyrocenter drifts, numerical simulations with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 D. I. Palade

Diffusion currents are theoretically examined in two-dimensional Dirac materials, such as those of the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) family. The transversal effects are analogues of the valley Hall (VHE) and photogalvanic (PGE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 A. V. Snegirev , V. M. Kovalev , M. V. Entin

Recent observations from {\em RHESSI} have revealed that the number of non-thermal electrons in the coronal part of a flaring loop can exceed the number of electrons required to explain the hard X-ray-emitting footpoints of the same flaring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 E. P. Kontar , N. H. Bian , A. G. Emslie , N. Vilmer

Under sufficiently high electric field gradients, electron behaviour within exactly perpendicular shocks is unstable to the so-called trajectory instability. We extend previous work paying special attention to shortiscale, high amplitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-18 V. See , R. F. Cameron , S. J. Schwartz

Just as correlations between fluctuating radial and azimuthal velocities produce a coherent stress contributing to the angular momentum transport in turbulent accretion disks, correlations in the velocity and temperature fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steven A. Balbus

In this study, the physics of sheath formation in a collisional two-electron temperature plasma in the presence of an oblique external magnetic field has been investigated. At first, a comparative study among the fluid electron model,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 G. Sharma , R. Paul , K. Deka , R. Moulick , S. Adhikari , S. S. Kausik , B. K. Saikia

Solutions to a model 2D eigenmode equation describing micro-instabilities in tokamak plasmas are presented that demonstrate a sensitivity of the mode structure and stability to plasma profiles. In narrow regions of parameter space, with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 D. Dickinson , C. M. Roach , J. M. Skipp , H. R. Wilson

Laser blow-off injections of aluminum and tungsten have been performed on the DIII-D tokamak to investigate the variation of impurity transport in a set of dedicated ion and electron heating scans with a fixed value of the external torque.…

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma turbulence is believed to play a vital role in the production of energetic electrons during solar flares and the non-thermal broadening of spectral lines is a key sign of this turbulence. Here, we determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Morgan Stores , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Eduard P. Kontar

In the full-orbit particle simulations of energetic particle transport in plasmas, the plasma turbulence is typically described as a homogeneous superposition of linear Fourier modes. The turbulence evolution is, however, typically a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Timo Laitinen , Silvia Dalla , James Kelly

The paper suggests certain regimes of fusion plasma with magnetic confinement, when the Larmor radius $\lambda$ and the angle $\alpha$ (determining the orientation of the local coordinates) form an analytic function $w=\lambda e^{i\alpha}$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Alexander M. Balk

Plasma turbulent transport was investigated at the edge of the GOLEM tokamak. For this purpose, ion saturation current fluctuations were measured by means of Langmuir probes. Plasma stabilization was not activated during the discharges…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 I. Nanobashvili , V. Svoboda , S. Nanobashvili , G. Van Oost , I. Naskidashvili , I. Tsevelidze

Recently, theoretical analysis has identified plasma microinstabilities as the primary mechanism responsible for anomalous heat transport in tokamaks. In particular, the microtearing mode (MTM) has been credited with the production of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 A. O. Nelson , F. M. Laggner , A. Diallo , Z. A. Xing , D. R. Smith , E. Kolemen

The edge turbulence model Hermes (Dudson et al., 2017 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 59 05401) is set up for plasma boundary simulations with an RF antenna, using parameters characteristic of a tokamak edge. Cartesian slab geometry is used…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 M. V. Umansky , B. D. Dudson , T. G. Jenkins , J. R. Myra , D. N. Smithe