Observation of multi-scale turbulence and non-local transport in LHD plasmas
Author(s) -
T. Tokuzawa,
S. Inagaki,
K. Ida,
K. Itoh,
T. Ido,
A. Shimizu,
H. Takahashi,
S. Kitajima,
N. Tamura,
M. Yoshinuma,
H. Tsuchiya,
I. Yamada,
K. Tanaka,
T. Akiyama,
Y. Nagayama,
K. Kawahata,
K. Y. Watanabe,
H. Yamada
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
physics of plasmas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1089-7674
pISSN - 1070-664X
DOI - 10.1063/1.4876619
Subject(s) - physics , turbulence , plasma , electric field , curvature , computational physics , temporal resolution , mechanics , optics , nuclear physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , mathematics
We have studied two types of spatio-temporal turbulence dynamics in plasmas in the Large Helical Device, based on turbulence measurements with high spatial and temporal resolution. Applying conditional ensemble-averaging to a plasma with Edge-Localized Modes (ELMs), fast radial inward propagation of a micro-scale turbulence front is observed just after ELM event, and the propagation speed is evaluated as ??100m/s. A self-organized radial electric field structure is observed in an electrode biasing experiment, and it is found to realize a multi-valued state. The curvature of the radial electric field is found to play an important role for turbulence reduction
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