REcent Advances in Nonlinear Gyrokinetics
T.S. Hahm
Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA¸
The nonlinear gyrokinetic formalism[1,2] has provided a firm theoretical foundation for the significant progress in simulating tokamak core turbulence[3] in the past.
References
[1] E.A. Frieman and L. Chen, Phys. Fluids 25, 502 (1982).
[2] T.S. Hahm, Phys. Fluids 31, 2670 (1988). [3] Z. Lin et al., Science 281, 1835 (1998). [4] K.H. Burrell, Phys. Plasmas 4, 1499 (1997). [5] E.J. Synakowski et al., Phys. Plasmas 4, 1736 (1997). [6] T.S. Hahm, Phys. Plasmas 3, 4658 (1996). g
Based on work in collaboration with Z. Lin (UCI) and P.H. Diamond (UCSD), supported by US DoE Contract No. DE-AC02-76-CHO-3073.
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