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We report the first experimental evidence of Alfvenic ion temperature gradient (AITG) modes in HL-2A Ohmic plasmas. A group of oscillations with $f=15-40$ kHz and $n=3-6$ is detected by various diagnostics in high-density Ohmic regimes.…

The set of equations describing nonlinear evolution of a single toroidal Alfven eigenmode are derived, including both zero frequency zonal structure (ZFZS) generation and wave-particle phase space nonlinearities. The simplified case of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Zhiyong Qiu , Liu Chen , Fulvio Zonca

A subgrid electron-temperature-gradient (ETG) model is demonstrated here which averages local electron-scale turbulence from the GENE code over intermediate scales in space and time to include in global ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) GEM…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Stefan Tirkas , Yang Chen , Scott Parker

Gyrokinetic simulations are utilized to study effects of magnetic islands on the ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence in the KSTAR tokamak with resonant magnetic perturbations. Simulations show that the transport is controlled by the…

Nonlinear simulations of Alfv\'en modes (AM) driven by energetic particles (EP) in the presence of turbulence are performed with the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5. The AMs carry a heat flux, and consequently they nonlinearly modify…

Abstract Simulation domain in field-aligned coordinates of the electrostatic gyrokinetic nonlinear turbulence global code, NLT, is extended to include the magnetic axis. The artificial boundary near the magnetic axis is replaced by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Dai Zongliang , Xu Yingfeng , Ye Lei , Xiao Xiaotao , Wang Shaojie

Linear simulations of toriodal Alfv\'en eigenmodes (TAEs) driven by energetic particles (EPs) on EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) are performed using the hybrid-kinetic MHD (HK-MHD) model implemented in NIMROD code. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Yawei Hou , Charlson C. Kim , Ping Zhu , Zhihui Zou , Youjun Hu , Xingting Yan , the NIMROD Team

The interaction between energetic particles (EPs) and ion temperature gradient (ITG) modes is studied using the global particle in cell ORB5 code. In this work, we extend previous studies to a broader range of EP temperatures, including the…

We report on first evidence of wave activity during neutral beam heating in KSTAR plasmas: 40 kHz magnetic fluctuations with a toroidal mode number of n=1. Our analysis suggests this a beta-induced Alfven eigenmode resonant with the q=1…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. J. Hole , C. M. Ryu , M. H. Woo , J. G. Bak , S E. Sharapov , M. Fitzgerald , the KSTAR team

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…

This study comprehensively investigates fast ion-driven drift instability, extending the theory in [B. J. Kang and T. S. Hahm, Phys. Plasmas 26, 042501 (2019)]. The eigenmode equation, including the resonant contribution of passing fast…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 ByungJun Kang , Hideo Sugama , Tomo-Hiko Watanabe , Masanori Nunami

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

The probability distribution functions (PDFs) of momentum flux and zonal flow formation in ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) turbulence are investigated, including the effect of the shear flow on the PDFs. While ITG turbulence maintains high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Johan Anderson , Eun-jin Kim

Toroidal Alfv\'{e}n eigenmodes (TAEs) and energetic particle modes (EPMs) can both be excited by energetic particles from auxiliary heating and fusion-born alpha particles in a tokamak. Using the hybrid kinetic-MHD model implemented in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Shiwei Xue , Ping Zhu , Haolong Li

Toroidal Alfv\'en eigenmodes (TAEs) are gap modes induced by the toroidicity of tokamak plasmas in absence of continuum damping. They can be excited by energetic particles (EPs) when the EP drive exceeds other dampings. A TAE benchmark…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yawei Hou , Ping Zhu , Charlson C. Kim , Zhaoqing Hu , Zhihui Zou , Zhengxiong Wang , the NIMROD Team

The Bump-on-Tail (BoT) model is often adopted to characterize the non-linear interaction between fast ions and Alfv\'en Eigenmodes. A multi-beam Hamiltonian approach to the BoT model is tested here as paradigm for the description of these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Nakia Carlevaro , Giovanni Montani , Xin Wang , Fulvio Zonca

For magnetic reconnection to proceed, the frozen-in condition for both ion fluid and electron fluid in a localized diffusion region must be violated by inertial effects, thermal pressure effects, or inter-species collisions. It has been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Lei Dai , Chi Wang , Vassilis Angelopoulos , Karl-Heinz Glassmeier

A model of the fluid nonlinear frequency shift of ion acoustic waves (IAWs) in multi-ion species plasmas is presented, which considers the effect of ion temperature. Because the thermal ion exists in plasmas in inertial confinement fusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 Q. S. Feng , Q. Wang , L. H. Cao , C. Y. Zheng , Z. J. Liu , X. T. He

Toroidal Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) excited in purely ohmically heated plasmas without any auxiliary heating have been identified for the first time in the SUNIST spherical tokamak. The TAE modes are observed during minor disruptions and have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Yangqing Liu , Yi Tan , Zhe Gao , Yuhong Xu , Youjun Hu , Song Chai , Yanzheng Jiang , Rui Ke , Heng Zhong , Wenhao Wang

We propose, for the first time, a two-dimensional model for the nonlinear coupling of internal gravity and thermal waves in the presence of temperature-dependent density inhomogeneity due to thermal expansion and thermal feedback in…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 S. Das Adhikary , A. P. Misra
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