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This work explores the potential of an information-theoretical causality detection method for unraveling the relation between fluctuating variables in complex nonlinear systems. The method is tested on some simple though nonlinear models,…

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Edge plasma turbulence is critical to the performance of magnetic confinement fusion devices. Towards better understanding edge turbulence in both theory and experiment, a custom-built physics-informed deep learning framework constrained by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Abhilash Mathews

Intriguing parallels between density fluctuation power versus wavenumber on small (mm) and large (Mpc) scales are presented. The comparative study is carried out between fusion plasma measurements and cosmological data. Based on predictions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 N. P. Basse

In this contribution, I give an overview of the various approaches toward the numerical modelling of turbulence, particularly, in the interstellar medium. The discussion is placed in a physical context, i. e. computational problems are…

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One of the most intensely studied aspects of magnetic confinement fusion is edge plasma turbulence which is critical to reactor performance and operation. Drift-reduced Braginskii two-fluid theory has for decades been widely applied to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Abhilash Mathews , Manaure Francisquez , Jerry Hughes , David Hatch , Ben Zhu , Barrett Rogers

Plasma turbulence simulations are often computationally expensive with delicate numerical stability. Yet, long simulations are needed to generate uncorrelated turbulence data for studies such as microwave scattering through density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Jarrod Leddy , Chris Bowman , Kieran Gibson , Ben Dudson

We describe results from particle-in-cell simulations of driven turbulence in collisionless, magnetized, relativistic pair plasma. This physical regime provides a simple setting for investigating the basic properties of kinetic turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

The reactivity of fusion plasma depends not only on its local density and temperature but also, through a recently identified kinetic effect, on the relative velocities of nearby fluid elements. Turbulence on fine spatial scales therefore…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Henry Fetsch , Nathaniel J. Fisch

The role of turbulence in setting boundary plasma conditions is presently a key uncertainty in projecting to fusion energy reactors. To robustly diagnose edge turbulence, we develop and demonstrate a technique to translate brightness…

The reliability of Langmuir probe measurements for plasma-turbulence investigations is studied on GEMR gyro-fluid simulations and compared with results from conditionally sampled I-V characteristics as well as self-emitting probe…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Nold , T. T. Ribeiro , M. Ramisch , Z. Huang , H. W. Müller , B. D. Scott , U. Stroth , ASDEX Upgrade Team

We study the dynamics of a flexible fiber freely moving in a three-dimensional fully-developed turbulent field and present a phenomenological theory to describe the interaction between the fiber elasticity and the turbulent flow. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Marco Edoardo Rosti , Arash Alizad Banaei , Luca Brandt , Andrea Mazzino

Starting from the assumption that saturation of plasma turbulence driven by temperature-gradient instabilities in fusion plasmas is achieved by a local energy cascade between a long-wavelength outer scale, where energy is injected into the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 P. G. Ivanov , T. Adkins , D. Kennedy , M. Giacomin , M. Barnes , A. A. Schekochihin

Turbulence remains a problem that is yet to be fully understood, with experimental and numerical studies aiming to fully characterise the statistical properties of turbulent flows. Such studies require huge amount of resources to capture,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Vijay Kag , Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Venkatesh Gopinath

Recent studies provide evidence for the multi-scale nature of magnetic turbulence in the plasma sheet. Wavelet methods represent modern time series analysis techniques suitable for the description of statistical characteristics of…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 W. Baumjohann , R. Nakamura , A. Runov , M. Volwerk , T. L. Zhang , A. Balogh

We have in earlier work (Basse N P 2005, Phys. Lett. A vol. 340 p. 456) reported on intriguing similarities between density fluctuation power versus wavenumber on small (mm) and large (Mpc) scales. In this paper we expand upon our previous…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N P Basse

MHD Turbulence is a critical component of the current paradigms of star formation, particle transport, magnetic reconnection and evolution of the ISM. Progress on this difficult subject is made via numerical simulations and observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-06 Blakesley Burkhart , Alex Lazarian

Intermittent fluctuations in the boundary of magnetically confined plasmas are investigated by numerical turbulence simulations of a reduced fluid model describing the evolution of the plasma density and electric drift vorticity in the…

In an inhomogeneous magnetised plasma the transport of energy and particles perpendicular to the magnetic field is in general mainly caused by quasi two-dimensional turbulent fluid mixing. The physics of turbulence and structure formation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-03-05 Alexander Kendl

We present a method for studying the evolution of plasma turbulence by tracking dispersion relations in the energy spectrum in the wavenumber-frequency domain. We apply hybrid plasma simulations in a simplified two-dimensional geometry to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-19 H. Comişel , D. Verscharen , Y. Narita , U. Motschmann

The formation and evolution of nonlinear and turbulent dynamical structures in two-dimensional complex plasmas and fluids is explored by means of generalised (drift) fluid simulations. Recent numerical results on turbulence in dusty…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 Alexander Kendl
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