Turbulence spreading and transport scaling in global gyrokinetic particle simulations

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1099-1108

  Lin, Z ^a   Hahm, T S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GYROKINETIC TOROIDAL CODES (GTC); ION TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS (ITG); MAGNETIC COORDINATES; PARTICLE SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFUSION; ELECTROSTATICS; HEAT FLUX; MAGNETOPLASMA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; RESONANCE; TOKAMAK DEVICES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

PLASMA TURBULENCE;

EID: 2042506397     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1647136     Document Type: Article

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