Transport bifurcation in a rotating tokamak plasma.
The effect of flow shear on turbulent transport in tokamaks is studied numerically in the experimentally relevant limit of zero magnetic shear. It is found that the plasma is linearly stable for all nonzero flow shear values, but that subcritical turbulence can be sustained nonlinearly at a wide ran...
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| author | Highcock, E Barnes, M Schekochihin, A Parra, F Roach, C Cowley, S |
| author_facet | Highcock, E Barnes, M Schekochihin, A Parra, F Roach, C Cowley, S |
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| description | The effect of flow shear on turbulent transport in tokamaks is studied numerically in the experimentally relevant limit of zero magnetic shear. It is found that the plasma is linearly stable for all nonzero flow shear values, but that subcritical turbulence can be sustained nonlinearly at a wide range of temperature gradients. Flow shear increases the nonlinear temperature gradient threshold for turbulence but also increases the sensitivity of the heat flux to changes in the temperature gradient, except over a small range near the threshold where the sensitivity is decreased. A bifurcation in the equilibrium gradients is found: for a given input of heat, it is possible, by varying the applied torque, to trigger a transition to significantly higher temperature and flow gradients. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:c2efae06-8ff0-4db5-8538-a10aadfcc93b2022-03-27T06:12:49ZTransport bifurcation in a rotating tokamak plasma.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c2efae06-8ff0-4db5-8538-a10aadfcc93bEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2010Highcock, EBarnes, MSchekochihin, AParra, FRoach, CCowley, SThe effect of flow shear on turbulent transport in tokamaks is studied numerically in the experimentally relevant limit of zero magnetic shear. It is found that the plasma is linearly stable for all nonzero flow shear values, but that subcritical turbulence can be sustained nonlinearly at a wide range of temperature gradients. Flow shear increases the nonlinear temperature gradient threshold for turbulence but also increases the sensitivity of the heat flux to changes in the temperature gradient, except over a small range near the threshold where the sensitivity is decreased. A bifurcation in the equilibrium gradients is found: for a given input of heat, it is possible, by varying the applied torque, to trigger a transition to significantly higher temperature and flow gradients. |
| spellingShingle | Highcock, E Barnes, M Schekochihin, A Parra, F Roach, C Cowley, S Transport bifurcation in a rotating tokamak plasma. |
| title | Transport bifurcation in a rotating tokamak plasma. |
| title_full | Transport bifurcation in a rotating tokamak plasma. |
| title_fullStr | Transport bifurcation in a rotating tokamak plasma. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transport bifurcation in a rotating tokamak plasma. |
| title_short | Transport bifurcation in a rotating tokamak plasma. |
| title_sort | transport bifurcation in a rotating tokamak plasma |
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