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Twisted magnetic flux ropes are ubiquitous in space and laboratory plasmas, and the merging of such flux ropes through magnetic reconnection is an important mechanism for restructuring magnetic fields and releasing free magnetic energy. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 P. K. Browning , S. Cardnell , M. Evans , F. Arese Lucini , V. S. Lukin , K. G. McClements , A. Stanier

We study the dynamics of weakly coupled non-abelian plasmas within the frameworks of classical-statistical lattice gauge-theory and kinetic theory. We focus on a class of systems which are highly occupied, isotropic at all times and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Soeren Schlichting

The chaotic transport of charged particles in a turbulent electrostatic potential sets the conditions of a severe limitation to the plasma confinement in devices such as tokamaks. In this chapter, we consider the motion of impurities driven…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Cristel Chandre , Guido Ciraolo , Michel Vittot

The thermoelastic metamaterial based on a bimaterial hybrid-honeycomb structure, exhibiting simultaneously negative Poisson's ratios and negative thermal expansion coefficients is very promising for various application. This work is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Xiang-Long Peng , Bai-Xiang Xu

The effect of a narrow sub-Alfvenic shear flow layer near the minimum q_min of the tokamak safety factor profile in a configuration with reversed central shear is analyzed. Sufficiently strong velocity shear gives rise to a broad spectrum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Andreas Bierwage , Qingquan Yu , Sibylle Günter

The physical processes taking place at the edge region are crucial for the operation of tokamaks as they govern the interaction of hot plasma with the vessel walls. Numerical modeling of the edge with state-of-the-art codes attempts to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 I. Keramidas Charidakos , J. R. Myra , S. Ku , R. M. Churchill , R. Hager , C. S. Chang , S. Parker

We investigated the dynamics of highly turbulent thermally driven anabatic (upslope) flow on a physical model inside a large water tank using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and a thermocouple grid. The results showed that the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-02 Roni H. Goldshmid , Dan Liberzon

This study investigates how two- and three-wave configurations govern particle escape and transport in tokamak edge plasmas. Using a Hamiltonian model derived from drift-wave turbulence, we analyze test particle dynamics through Poincar\'e…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-26 P. Haerter , E. D. Leonel , R. L. Viana

The topological properties of many materials are central to their behavior, with the dynamics of topological defects being particularly important to intrinsically out-of-equilibrium, active materials. In this paper, local manipulation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-01 David P. Rivas , Tyler N. Shendruk , Robert R. Henry , Daniel H. Reich , Robert L. Leheny

The turbulence in magnetically confined fusion plasmas has important and non-trivial effects on the quality of the energy confinement. These effects are hard to make a quantitative assessment of analytically. The problem investigated in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 Pär Strand , Andreas Skyman , Hans Nordman

We present 2-dimensional turbulent electric field calculations via physics-informed deep learning consistent with (i) drift-reduced Braginskii theory under the framework of an axisymmetric fusion plasma with purely toroidal field and (ii)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Abhilash Mathews , Jerry Hughes , James Terry , Seung-Gyou Baek

Soft-granular media, such as dense emulsions, foams or tissues, exhibit either fluid- or solid-like properties depending on the applied external stresses. Whereas bulk rheology of such materials has been thoroughly investigated, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-04 Michal Bogdan , Jesus Pineda , Mihir Durve , Leon Jurkiewicz , Sauro Succi , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Guzowski

The results of flux-driven, two-fluid simulations in single-null configurations are used to investigate the processes determining the turbulent transport in the tokamak edge. Three turbulent transport regimes are identified: (i) a developed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Maurizio Giacomin , Paolo Ricci

The rampdown phase of a tokamak pulse is difficult to simulate and often exacerbates multiple plasma instabilities. To reduce the risk of disrupting operations, we leverage advances in Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) to combine physics…

The turbulent energy flow of the onedimensional Majda-McLaughlin-Tabak equation is studied numerically. The system exhibits weak turbulence for weak driving forces, while weak turbulence coexists with strongly nonlinear intermittent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benno Rumpf Laura Biven

In this paper, the analytical form of the quasilinear diffusion coefficients is modified from the Kennel-Engelmann diffusion coefficients to guarantee the positive definiteness of its bounce average in a toroidal geometry. By evaluating the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Jungpyo Lee , David Smithe , John Wright , Paul Bonoli

The high acquisition cost and the significant demand for disruptive discharges for data-driven disruption prediction models in future tokamaks pose an inherent contradiction in disruption prediction research. In this paper, we demonstrated…

Time delay estimation (TDE) is a well-known technique to investigate poloidal flows in fusion plasmas. The present work is an extension of the earlier works of A. Bencze and S. Zoletnik 2005 and B. T\'al et al. 2011. From the prospective of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Dávid Guszejnov , Attila Bencze , Sándor Zoletnik , Andreas-Krämer-Flecken

Numerical simulation is an important tool to help us understand the process of structure formation in the universe. However many simulation results of cold dark matter (CDM) halos on small scale are inconsistent with observations: the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Weike Xiao , Chang Peng , Xianfeng Ye , Heng Hao

The theory of mesoscopic fluctuations is applied to inhomogeneous solids consisting of chaotically distributed regions with different crystalline structure. This approach makes it possible to describe statistical properties of such mixture…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 V. I. Yukalov