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PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION
卷 65, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6587/aca9fa
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multiscale; tokamak; turbulence; pedestal; gyrokinetic; transport; H-mode
The transition from ion-scale dominated regimes to multiscale transport regimes that couple ion and electron scales in turbulent transport has been studied using gyrokinetic simulations. It was found that the magnitude of the ion-scale poloidal wavenumber spectrum of the nonlinear turbulent energy flux increases while the magnitude of the high-wavenumber spectrum decreases during the transition. This decrease in electron-scale transport is due to nonlinear mixing with ion-scale fluctuations and ion-scale-driven zonal flows.
The transition in the turbulence spectrum from ion-scale dominated regimes to multiscale transport regimes that couple ion and electron scales is studied with gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport. The simulations are based on DIII-D high-confinement mode (H-mode) plasma parameters in the tokamak pedestal. The transition is initiated by varying the ion temperature gradient. To our knowledge, no full multiscale simulations of pedestal-like transport have been done previously. The experimental parameters lie in a bifurcation region between the two regimes. At long wavelengths, a complex, ion-direction hybrid mode is the dominant linearly unstable drift wave, while an electron temperature gradient-driven mode is unstable at short wavelengths. In the transition from the multiscale branch to the ion-scale branch, the magnitude of the ion-scale poloidal wavenumber spectrum of the nonlinear turbulent energy flux increases and the magnitude of the high-wavenumber spectrum decreases. The decrease in the electron-scale transport is due to nonlinear mixing with ion-scale fluctuations and the ion-scale-driven zonal flows. A shift in the total energy associated with the fluctuating electrostatic potential intensity from dominantly drift kinetic energy in the multiscale regime to dominantly potential intensity in the ion-scale regime is well-correlated with the trend in the total energy flux.
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