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Soliton modulation of the turbulence envelope and plasma rotation
1Association Euratom-C.E.A. sur la Fusion, C.E.A.-Cadarache, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France.
Physical Review Letters
|October 26, 2002
Abstract:
The space-uniform amplitude envelope of the ion-temperature-gradient driven turbulence is unstable to small perturbations and evolves to nonuniform, solitonlike modulated profiles. The induced poloidal asymmetry of the transport fluxes can generate spontaneous poloidal spin-up of the tokamak plasma.