Avalanche-like bursts in global gyrokinetic simulations

35th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2008, EPS 2008 - Europhysics Conference Abstracts

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 261-264

  McMillan, B F ^a   Jolliet, S ^a   Tran, T M ^a   Bottino, A ^b   Angelino, P ^c   Villard, L ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c Association Euratom CEA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PROPAGATION; AVALANCHE PROPERTIES; GYROBOHM SCALING; GYROKINETIC SIMULATIONS; LINEAR DISPERSION; NONLOCAL TRANSPORT; PLASMA SIZE; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; RADIAL CORRELATION LENGTHS; SCALE LENGTH; SHEARED FLOW; SHEARING RATES; TIME VARIABLE; TIME-AVERAGED;

PLASMA SIMULATION;

EID: 84873041611     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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