Up-down symmetry of the turbulent transport of toroidal angular momentum in tokamaks
- Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3NP (United Kingdom)
- Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0EH (United Kingdom)
Two symmetries of the local nonlinear {delta}f gyrokinetic system of equations in tokamaks in the high flow regime are presented. The turbulent transport of toroidal angular momentum changes sign under an up-down reflection of the tokamak and a sign change of both the rotation and the rotation shear. Thus, the turbulent transport of toroidal angular momentum must vanish for up-down symmetric tokamaks in the absence of both rotation and rotation shear. This has important implications for the modeling of spontaneous rotation.
- OSTI ID:
- 21546955
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 18, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3586332; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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