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Effects of intermittency via non-Gaussianity on turbulent transport in magnetized plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

D.I. Palade Open the ORCID record for D.I. Palade [Opens in a new window]  and
L. Pomârjanschi
D.I. Palade*
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National Institute of Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Atomiștilor Street 409, 077125 Măgurele, Bucharest, Romania
L. Pomârjanschi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Atomiștilor Street 405, 077125 Măgurele, Romania
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Abstract

We analyse how the turbulent transport of $\boldsymbol {E}\times \boldsymbol {B}$ type in magnetically confined plasmas is affected by the intermittent features of turbulence. The latter are modelled via the non-Gaussian distribution $P(\phi )$ of the turbulent electric potential $\phi$. Our analysis is performed at an analytical level and confirmed numerically using two statistical approaches. We have found that the diffusion is inhibited linearly by intermittency, mainly via the kurtosis of the distribution $P(\phi )$. The associated susceptibility for this linear process is shown to be dependent on the poloidal velocity $V_p$ and on the correlation time $\tau _c$ (or the Kubo number $K_\star$, the ratio between $\tau _c$ and the specific time of flight $\tau _{{\rm fl}}$) with a maximum at $\tau _c\approx \tau _{{\rm fl}}$ ($K_\star \approx 1$). Intermittency does not affect the scaling of diffusion with the Kubo number.

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fusion plasmaplasma nonlinear phenomena
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 88 , Issue 2 , April 2022 , 905880202
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