Echoes and phase-unmixing in fully developed tokamak turbulence

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Abstract

Echoes in quiescent plasma are well understood. Here, we describe the role of echoes (and more generally, "phase-unmixing") in fully developed turbulence. We demonstrate that echoes are ubiquitous, important, and easily understood and modeled. We demonstrate their role in preserving the observed density fluctuations in the solar wind -- density fluctuations which would otherwise be Landau damped. We then explain their importance in tokamak turbulence and demonstrate how they can be modeled, particularly with highly efficient gyrofluid methods. The essential difference between what we present here and what we have published recently is our inclusion of finite Larmor radius physics. We extend our previous analysis and simulations of long wavelength fluctuations to treat fluctuations with wavelengths comparable to or much smaller than an ion gyroradius, as is typical in tokamak microturbulence.

Authors

  • William Dorland

    Univ of Maryland-College Park, University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland - College Park

  • Alex Schekochihin

    Oxford University, University of Oxford

  • Noah Mandell

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

  • David Hatch

    Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies, UT-Austin, University of Texas

  • Anjor Kanekar

    Palantir

  • Jake Bringewatt

    University of Maryland-College Park

  • Greg Hammett

    Princeton University