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9月1日 Nonlinear excitation of fine-radial-scale zonal structures by toroidal Alfven eigenmode

五室第九十期研讨会

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  题  目:Nonlinear excitation of fine-radial-scale zonal structures by toroidal Alfven eigenmode

  报告人:仇志勇博士(浙江大学)

  时  间:2017年9月1日(星期五)  9:00—10:00

  地  点:601会议室

  摘要:

  Shear Alfvén waves (SAW), manifested as various kinds of Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) in toroidally confined plasmas, are expected to play important roles in future tokamaks such as ITER. SAWs could be excited by energetic particles (EPs) via resonant wave-particle inter- actions; and, in turn, induce EP transport and degrade overall plasma confinement. Nonlinear processes due to SAW and their resonant interactions with EPs also have broader implications for space plasmas and nonlinear dynamics.

  In this work, we take toroidal AE (TAE) as an example, and illustrate various nonlinear processes and the resultant saturated spectrum, by which the level of transport can then be determined. Employing the nonlinear gyrokinetic framework, the theory of nonlinear interplay of TAE, zonal structures (ZS) and energetic particles is presented. Specifically, the theory includes 1) excitation of low frequency ZS (LFZS) by TAE and, 2) TAE saturation due to ZS scattering. We found that, due to the typically radially localized TAE mode structures, the associated nonlinear processes also exhibit both the well-known and often studied meso-scale structures as well as fine-scale radial structures; resulting in qualitative and quantitative modifications in the nonlinear processes of AEs. Further theoretical considerations and practical implications of these findings will also be discussed.

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