Suppression of turbulence and subcritical fluctuations in differentially rotating gyrokinetic plasmas

Details Suppression of turbulence and subcritical fluctuations in differentially rotating gyrokinetic plasmas Suppression of turbulence and subcritical fluctuations in differentially rotating gyrokinetic plasmas

Mar 2012

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American Physical Society, APS April Meeting 2012, March 31-Apr 3, 2012, abstract #S1.020

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Differential rotation suppresses linear instabilities in fusion plasmas. However, subcritical fluctuations that grow transiently can lead to sustained turbulence and transport. Here fluctuations driven by the parallel velocity gradient (PVG) and ITG in the presence of perpendicular velocity shear and zero magnetic shear are considered. There are no growing eigenmodes, so all excitations are transient. In the PVG-dominated regime, the maximum amplification factor is e^N with Nq/ɛ, the maximally amplified wavenumbers satisfy kyρi (ɛ/q)^1/3kvthi/S, where S is the ExB shear. In the ITG-dominated regime, N is independent of k and Nvthi/(LTS). For intermediate ITG-PVG regimes, N is calculated vs. q/ɛ, LT and S. Analytical results are supplemented by linear gyrokinetic numerical tests. Regimes with N<1 for all k are possible for small enough q/ɛ<7; ion-scale turbulence is expected to be fully suppressed in such regimes. For cases when it is not suppressed, an elementary heuristic theory of subcritical PVG turbulence and a scaling of the ion heat flux with q, ɛ, S and LT is proposed; the transport is much less stiff than in the ITG regime.

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