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Turbulence Induced Transport in Tokamaks

AIP Conf. Proc. -- December 4, 2006 -- Volume 875, pp. 341-346
PLASMA AND FUSION SCIENCE: 16th IAEA Technical Meeting on Research using Small Fusion Devices; XI Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics; doi:10.1063/1.2405962

Issue Date: 4 December 2006

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I. L. Caldas,* F. A. Marcus,* A. M. Batista,[dagger] R. L. Viana,** S. R. Lopes,** M. V. A. P. Heller,* Z. O. Guimarães-Filho,* P. J. Morrison,[double-dagger],[double-dagger][double-dagger] and W. Horton[double-dagger],[double-dagger][double-dagger]
*Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
[dagger]Departamento de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil
**Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 81531-990, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
[double-dagger]Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712
[double-dagger][double-dagger]Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712

This report is concerned with plasma edge turbulence and its relation to anomalous particle transport in tokamaks. First, experimental evidence of turbulence driven particle transport and measurements of the gradients of the equilibrium profiles in the Brazilian tokamaks TBR and TCABR are presented. Next, diffusion in a two drift-wave system is discussed. In this nonintegrable system, particle transport is associated with the onset of chaotic orbits. Finally, numerical evidence suggesting that a nonlinear three-mode interaction could contribute to the intermittent plasma fluctuations observed in tokamaks is presented. ©2006 American Institute of Physics
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 52.35.Ra
    Plasma turbulence
  • 52.25.Fi
    Plasma transport properties
  • 52.35.Kt
    Plasma drift waves
  • 52.35.Mw
    Nonlinear phenomena: plasma waves, wave propagation and other interactions including parametric effects, mode coupling, ponderomotive effects, etc
  • 52.25.Gj
    Plasma fluctuation and chaos phenomena
  • 52.55.Fa
    Tokamaks
  • YEAR: 2006

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