Turbulent transport of toroidal angular momentum in fusion plasmas

Holod, I.; Lin, Z.; Xiao, Y.

doi:10.1063/1.3677886

Title: Turbulent transport of toroidal angular momentum in fusion plasmas

Journal Article · Thu Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2012 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3677886· OSTI ID:1564856

Holod, I. ^[1]; Lin, Z. ^[2]; Xiao, Y. ^[1]

Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States) ; Peking Univ., Beijing (China)

Global nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient (ITG) and collisionless trapped electron mode (CTEM) turbulence find significant spinning up of a plasma in the directions opposite for CTEM and ITG turbulence. The outward momentum convection by the particle flux could be strong enough to overcome the inward momentum pinch and reverse the radial direction of the convective momentum flux. Momentum pinch velocity shows no explicit dependence on background temperature, while it is significantly affected by steepening the background density. Convective momentum fluxes are generally smaller in the CTEM turbulence than the ITG turbulence, while the intrinsic Prandtl number is similar or slightly larger in the CTEM turbulence.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI ID:: 1564856

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 19, Issue 1; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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