学术报告

9月17日 五室第168期研讨会

2021-09-16|【 【打印】【关闭】

  题  目: Role of Zonal Flow in Intermediate-Scale Electron Temperature Gradient Turbulence: Does Streamer Matter?

  报告人: 陈昊天 博士(西班牙塞维利亚大学)

  主持人: 项  农 研究员

  时 间: 2021年9月17日(星期五)15:00

  地 点:EAST控制大厅3楼会议室  (远程报告)

  摘 要:

  Electron temperature gradient (ETG) turbulence is regarded as a candidate for electron heat transport in tokamaks. However, due to its extremely fine scale, the associated electron heat transport from dimensional analysis is limited to electron gyro-Bohm level. Since observed numerically in early 2000s, radially elongated streamers have been proposed to enhance electron heat transport in ETG turbulence. Zonal flow (ZF) generation, meanwhile, is thought to be weak. To the best of our knowledge, there is no experimental evidence as yet for the existence of streamers. Here, we develop a nonlinear gyrokinetic theory of ZF generation in intermediate-scale (short[1]er than ion gyroradius but longer than electron gyroradius) ETG turbulence [1], which is con[1]nected with long-time saturation. Both plasma nonuniformity and continuous radial spectrum effects are properly included. The resultant Schr¨odinger equation for ETG amplitude is charac[1]terized by a Navier-Stokes type nonlinearity, which is typically stronger than the Hasegawa-Mima type nonlinearity in fluid limit. Therefore, ZFs can be more easily excited in intermediate-scale than in the short wavelength regime. A novel ETG saturation picture is proposed that, in the early nonlinear phase, strongly unstable short wavelength ETGs are saturated by inverse cas[1]cading, with streamers being well preserved; as spectrum downshifts, the ZF generation becomes more important, and will ultimately break up streamers, leading to isotropic eddies. Therefore, streamers cannot exist in realistic experimental devices. Gyrokinetic simulations are applied to verify theoretical predictions.

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