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Traditionally the effects of MHD instabilities and micro-instabilities on plasma confinement are investigated separately. However, these two instabilities often occur simultaneously, with the overlap of the dynamics on a broad range of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-07-06 Johan Anderson , Eun-jin Kim

A fluid model is developed for multicomponent two-temperature magnetized plasmas in chemical non-equilibrium from the partially- to fully-ionized collisional regimes. We focus on transport phenomena aiming at representing the chromosphere…

Interaction of coherent structures known as blobs in the scrape-off layer of magnetic confinement fusion devices is investigated. Isolated and interacting seeded blobs as well as full plasma turbulence are studied with a two dimensional…

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

Ion temperature gradient(ITG) and trapped electron modes(TEM) driven turbulent transport in an ITER-like plasma is investigated by means of multi-species gyrokinetic Vlasov simulations with D, T, He, and real-mass kinetic electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Motoki Nakata , Mitsuru Honda

The integration of interpretability and generalisability in data-driven turbulence modelling remains a fundamental challenge for computational fluid dynamics applications. This study yields a generalisable advancement of the $k$-$\omega$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-02 Mario J. Rincón , Martino Reclari , Xiang I. A. Yang , Mahdi Abkar

In this work, we present the first global gyrokinetic simulations of the ITER baseline scenario operating at 15 MA using GENE-Tango electrostatic and electromagnetic simulations. The modeled radial region spans close to the magnetic axis up…

H-mode operation of tokamak fusion plasmas free of dangerous Type 1 edge-localized-modes (ELMs) requires a non-ELM mechanism for saturating the edge pedestal growth. One possible mechanism is turbulent transport. We introduce a transport…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 J. F. Parisi , D. R. Hatch , P. Y. Li , J. W. Berkery , A. O. Nelson , S. M. Kaye , K. Imada , M. Lampert

Magnetic geometry has a significant effect on the level of turbulent transport in fusion plasmas. Here, we model and analyze this dependence using multiple machine learning methods and a dataset of > 200,000 nonlinear simulations of…

Spatially developing round jet flows are fundamental to numerous engineering applications. This letter applies the wave-particle turbulence simulation (WPTS) method, a recently developed multiscale approach, to simulate a spatially…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-22 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

This work derives the Navier--Stokes hydrodynamic equations for a model of a confined, quasi-two-dimensional, $s$-component mixture of inelastic, smooth, hard spheres. Using the inelastic version of the revised Enskog theory, macroscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-27 David González Méndez , Vicente Garzó

Turbulent transport near the X-point of a large tokamak is examined using local, gradient-driven simulations that determine the saturated plasma profiles. The distribution of a representative set of particle tracers evolving within these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Fabio Moretti , Francesco Cianfrani , Nakia Carlevaro , Giovanni Montani

This study aims to enhance the generalizability of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models, which are crucial for engineering applications. Classic RANS turbulence models often struggle to predict separated flows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Chenyu Wu , Shaoguang Zhang , Changxin Guo , Yufei Zhang

We perform three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of two idealized regimes of stellar convection: a cooling-driven model (Model C) and an entropy-gradient-driven model (Model S). The two regimes exhibit striking contrasts: while Model S…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Youhei Masada , Tomoya Takiwaki , Nobumitsu Yoko

Understanding and predicting divertor heat-load width ${\lambda}_q$ is a critically important problem for an easier and more robust operation of ITER with high fusion gain. Previous predictive simulation data for ${\lambda}_q$ using the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 C. S. Chang , S. Ku , R. Hager , R. M. Churchill , J. Hughes , F. Köchl , A. Loarte , V. Parail , R. Pitts

Surface roughness significantly impacts transition to turbulence, especially over high-speed, blunt geometries where surface ablation is necessary to mitigate heat loads during atmospheric entry. Inspired by sand-grain roughness experiments…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-04 Sean Dungan , Mateus Braga , Robyn Macdonald , Christoph Brehm

Charged particle transport is an important energy transport mode in the combustion process of inertial confinement fusion plasma. On the one hand, charged particles inside the hot spot have a strong non-equilibrium effect, so it is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Chang Liu , Bao Du , Peng Song

A local turbulence model is developed to study energy cascades in the heliosheath and outer heliosphere (OH) based on self-consistent two-dimensional fluid simulations. The model describes a partially ionized magnetofluid OH that couples a…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank

This paper investigates the impact of edge turbulence spreading on broadening the heat flux width in Ohmic-plasma approaching the density limit of the J-TEXT tokamak. At the plasma edge, the EXB shear flow collapses while turbulence…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 T. Wu , P. H. Diamond , L. Nie , R. Ke , Z. P. Chen , Q. H. Yang , W. J. Tian , T. Long , Z. J. Yang , Z. Y. Chen , M. Xu

We investigate the ExB diffusion of fusion born \alpha particles in tokamak plasmas. We determine the transport regimes for a realistic model that has the characteristics of the ion temperature gradient (ITG) or of the trapped electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Croitoru , D. I. Palade , M Vlad , F Spineanu