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In this work, an implicit scheme for particle-in-cell/Fourier electromagnetic simulations is developed and applied to studies of Alfv\'en waves in one dimension and three-dimensional tokamak plasmas. An analytical treatment is introduced to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Z. X. Lu , G. Meng , M. Hoelzl , Ph. Lauber

We report on a theoretical discovery of new regimes of Alfv\'en eigenmode (AE) induced fast ion transport in tokamak plasmas, where microturbulence plays the role of a mediator of fast ion relaxation. Coulomb collisional scattering alone…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Nikolai Gorelenkov , Vinicius Duarte

Conditions for net fast ion drive are derived for beam-driven, co-propagating, sub-cyclotron compressional (CAE) and global (GAE) Alfv\'en eigenmodes driven by the Landau resonance with super-Alfv\'enic fast ions. Approximations applicable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 J. B. Lestz , N. N. Gorelenkov , E. V. Belova , S. X. Tang , N. A. Crocker

Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) can be destabilized by energetic particles in neutral beam injection (NBI) heated plasmas through inverse Landau damping and couplings with gap modes in the shear Alfven continua. We describe the linear evolution of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 J. Varela , D. Spong , L. Garcia

We present a general theoretical approach for the quantitative description of parametric excitation of spin-wave modes in confined micromagnetic systems. This type of problem belongs to a broader class of nonlinear modal dynamics that arise…

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A novel channel for fuel ions heating in tokamak core plasma is proposed and analyzed using nonlinear gyrokinetic theory. The channel is achieved via spontaneous decay of reversed shear Alfv\'en eigenmode (RSAE) into low frequency Alfv\'en…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Zhiyong Qiu , Shizhao Wei , Tao Wang , Liu Chen , Fulvio Zonca

In this paper, we report the novel experimental observation of both unstable and stable Toroidicity-induced Alfv\'en Eigenmodes (TAEs) measured simultaneously in a JET tokamak plasma. The three-ion-heating scheme (D-DNBI-3He) is employed to…

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The resonant and non-resonant effects of core plasma on the excitation of low frequency modes with $\omega < \omega_{BAE}$, such as Beta-induced Alfv\'en Acoustic Eigenmodes (BAAEs) and Kinetic Ballooning Modes (KBMs) are examined in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-21 Ilija Chavdarovski , Fulvio Zonca , Liu Chen

The coupled-mode theory is developed for description of the nonlinear wave dynamics in binary optical lattices. The obtained equations of motion accurately describe nonlinear wave dynamics close to the band edges and in the gap of the…

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A novel 2D nonlinear dynamical paradigm is constructed to interpret the fast and repetitive frequency chirping and amplitude oscillation of Alfv\'en eigenmodes excited by energetic particles in fusion plasmas as observed in global…

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Waves scattered at a self-oscillating mode can exhibit superradiance, or net amplification of an external harmonic excitation. This exotic behavior, arising from the nonlinear coupling between the mode and the incident wave, is…

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A pair of quantized spin-wave modes is driven by two-tone parallel pumping in a YIG microdisk. The nonlinear dynamics is experimentally investigated by probing the resulting steady state, which is found to critically depend on the chosen…

We investigate the dynamics of a coupled waveguide system with competing linear and nonlinear loss-gain profiles which can facilitate power saturation. We show the usefulness of the model in achieving unidirectional beam propagation. In…

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The goal of magnetic fusion research is to extract the power released by fusion reactions and carried by the product of these reactions, liberated at energies of the order of a few MeV. The feasibility of fusion energy production relies on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-12-15 Christine Nguyen

A recent model coupling the shear-Alfv\'{e}n and acoustic continua, which depends strongly on the equilibrium shaping and on elongation in particular, is employed to explain the properties of Alfv\'{e}nic activity observed on JET plasmas…

We propose a quantitative model of ion temperature gradient driven turbulence in toroidal magnetized plasmas. In this model, the turbulence is regulated by zonal flows, i.e. mode saturation occurs by a zonal-flow-mediated energy cascade…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 G. G. Plunk , A. Bañón Navarro , F. Jenko

The saturation of ion cyclotron Alfven turbulence excited by beam particles is investigated using resonance broadening theory. The stochastic scattering which decorrelates particles, includes both random acceleration by electric fields and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. V. Medvedev , P. H. Diamond

In the event of a tokamak disruption in a D-T plasma, fusion-born alpha particles take several milliseconds longer to thermalise than the background. As the damping rates drop drastically following the several orders of magnitudes drop of…

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