Turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas with rotational shear

Details Turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas with rotational shear Turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas with rotational shear

2010-07-20

arxiv.org/abs/1007.3390v1

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Plasma Physics

4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRL

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Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations have been conducted to investigate turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas with rotational shear. At sufficiently large flow shears, linear instabilities are suppressed, but transiently growing modes drive subcritical turbulence whose amplitude increases with flow shear. This leads to a local minimum in the heat flux, indicating an optimal E x B shear value for plasma confinement. Local maxima in the momentum fluxes are also observed, allowing for the possibility of bifurcations in the E x B shear. The sensitive dependence of heat flux on temperature gradient is relaxed for large flow shear values, with the critical temperature gradient increasing at lower flow shear values. The turbulent Prandtl number is found to be largely independent of temperature and flow gradients, with a value close to unity.

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