Analysis of turbulence in fusion plasmas /
Boudewijn Ph. van Milligen, Raul Sanchez.
- 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
- [IOP release $release] IOP series in plasma physics IOP ebooks. [2022 collection] .
- IOP (Series). Release 22. IOP series in plasma physics. IOP ebooks. 2022 collection. .
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction -- 1.1. Energy policy options -- 1.2. Fusion -- 1.3. Magnetic confinement -- 1.4. Fusion plasmas : a special class of systems -- 1.5. Transport in fusion plasmas -- 1.6. How important is turbulence? -- 1.7. Unusual transport phenomena -- 1.8. Summary 2. Characterization of turbulence in plasmas -- 2.1. Probability distribution functions and statistical moments -- 2.2. Correlation -- 2.3. Conditional averages -- 2.4. Spectra -- 2.5. Structure detection : the biorthogonal decomposition -- 2.6. Wave interactions : the bicoherence -- 2.7. Summary 3. Complex features of plasma turbulence -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Self-similarity in random processes -- 3.3. The search for self-similarity in fusion plasmas -- 3.4. Long-term memory in time-series -- 3.5. The search for long-term memory in fusion plasmas -- 3.6. Characterization of self-similarity and memory via event burst sampling -- 3.7. Burst sampling in fusion plasmas -- 3.8. Summary 4. Causality -- 4.1. Antecedents -- 4.2. The quantification of information -- 4.3. The transfer entropy -- 4.4. Tests of the transfer entropy -- 4.5. Unravelling relations between turbulent variables -- 4.6. Understanding radial transport -- 4.7. Modelling -- 4.8. Summary 5. Intermittence -- 5.1. Antecedents -- 5.2. The intermittence parameter -- 5.3. Numerical study of intermittence in a turbulence model -- 5.4. Intermittence in the W7-X stellarator -- 5.5. Intermittence in the TJ-II plasma edge -- 5.6. Intermittence in the TJ-II plasma core -- 5.7. Intermittence and causality during confinement transitions at TJ-II -- 5.8. Intermittence and biasing at TJ-II -- 5.9. Summary 6. Closing -- 6.1. Lessons learned -- 6.2. Implications -- 6.3. Open questions and future perspectives -- Appendix A. Devices -- Appendix B. Resistive MHD turbulence model.
This book reviews some of the observations that reveal the complex nature of plasma turbulence in detail and explains their implications.
PhD students and researchers in the field of plasma physics (turbulence and transport).
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Boudewijn van Milligen is a senior researcher at the National Fusion Laboratory, Spain. Raul Sanchez is a full professor of Physics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.