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Non-equilibrium Microwave Plasma for Efficient High Temperature Chemistry
Published on: August 1, 2017
Nature of transport across sheared zonal flows in electrostatic ion-temperature-gradient gyrokinetic plasma
R Sánchez1, D E Newman, J-N Leboeuf
1Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8071, USA. sanchezferlr@ornl.gov
Abstract:
It is shown that the usual picture for the suppression of turbulent transport across a stable sheared flow based on a reduction of diffusive transport coefficients is, by itself, incomplete. By means of toroidal gyrokinetic simulations of electrostatic, collisionless ion-temperature-gradient turbulence, it is found that the nature of the transport is altered fundamentally, changing from diffusive to anticorrelated and subdiffusive. Additionally, whenever the flows are self-consistently driven by turbulence, the transport gains an additional non-Gaussian character. These results suggest that a description of transport across sheared flows using effective diffusivities is oversimplified.
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