Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
2008-03-16
Phys. Plasmas 15, 042302 (2008)
Physics
Plasma Physics
17 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Plasmas
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2901195
In toroidal geometry, and prior to the establishment of a fully developed turbulent state, the so-called topological instability of the pressure-gradient-driven turbulence is observed. In this intermediate state, a narrow spectral band of modes dominates the dynamics, giving rise to the formation of iso-surfaces of electric potential with a complicated topology. Since E x B advection of tracer particles takes place along these iso-surfaces, their topological complexity affects the characteristic features of radial and poloidal transport dramatically. In particular, they both become strongly non-diffusive and non-Gaussian. Since radial transport determines the system confinement properties and poloidal transport controls the equilibration dynamics (on any magnetic surface), the development of non-diffusive models in both directions is thus of physical interest. In previous work, a fractional model to describe radial transport was constructed by the authors. In this contribution, recent results on periodic fractional models are exploited for the construction of an effective model of poloidal transport. Numerical computations using a three-dimensional reduced magnetohydrodynamic set of equations are compared with analytical solutions of the fractional periodic model. It is shown that the aforementioned analytical solutions accurately describe poloidal transport, which turns out to be superdiffusive with index $\alpha=1$.
Calvo Ivan
Carreras Benjamin A.
Garcia Luis
Sanchez Raul
van Milligen Boudewijn Ph.
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