Nonlinear growth of zonal flows by secondary instability in general magnetic geometry

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/AA5FDFMaRDI QIDQ6100528zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gabriel G. Plunk

Publication date 12 May 2023

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05576

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

Abstract: We present a theory of the nonlinear growth of zonal flows in magnetized plasma turbulence, by the mechanism of secondary instability. The theory is derived for general magnetic geometry, and is thus applicable to both tokamaks and stellarators. The predicted growth rate is shown to compare favorably with nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations, with the error scaling as expected with the small parameter of the theory.

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