Zonal flows in plasma—a review

By P. Diamond, S. Itoh, K. Itoh, T. Hahm. 2005

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A comprehensive review of zonal flow phenomena in plasmas is presented. While the emphasis is on zonal flows in laboratory plasmas, planetary zonal flows are discussed as well. The review presents the status of theory, numerical simulation and experiments relevant to zonal flows. The emphasis is on developing an integrated understanding of the dynamics of drift wave–zonal flow turbulence by combining detailed studies of the generation of zonal flows by drift waves, the back-interaction of zonal flows on the drift waves, and the various feedback loops by which the system regulates and organizes itself. The implications of zonal flow phenomena for confinement in, and the phenomena of fusion devices are discussed. Special attention is given to the comparison of experiment with theory and to identifying directions for progress in future research.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Explanation of the JET n = 0 chirping mode (2006, background): “This is one possibility but other mechanisms for establishing the GAM have been proposed (e.g. see Diamond et al 2005) and this issue still needs to be studied to achieve a more complete understanding of the linear mode structure.”
• Cascades and transitions in turbulent flows (2018, background): “It is met in a variety of systems such as in the stellar interiors [345], the solar wind [346, 347], accretion disks [348] and the galaxies [349, 350] but also in industrial applications [92, 351].”