Zero-Turbulence Manifold in a Toroidal Plasma

Sheared toroidal flows can cause bifurcations to zero-turbulent-transport states in tokamak plasmas. The maximum temperature gradients that can be reached are limited by subcritical turbulence driven by the parallel velocity gradient. Here it is shown that q/ϵ (magnetic field pitch/inverse aspect ra...

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Main Authors: Highcock, E. G., Schekochihin, A. A., Cowley, S. C., Barnes, Michael, Parra Diaz, Felix Ignacio, Roach, C. M., Dorland, W.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77169
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-7404