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Turbulence Phase Space in Simple Magnetized Toroidal Plasmas
Plasma turbulence in a simple magnetized torus (SMT) is explored for the first time with three-dimensional global fluid simulations. Three turbulence regimes are described: an ideal interchange mode regime, a previously undiscovered resistive interchange mode regime, and a drift-wave regime. As the pitch of the field lines is decreased, the simulations exhibit a transition from the first regime to the second, while the third—the drift-wave regime—is likely accessible to the experiments only at very low collisionalities.
Type
research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000276541900022
Authors
Publication date
2010
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Published in
Volume
104
Article Number
145001
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Peer reviewed
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February 9, 2011
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