Route to Drift Wave Chaos and Turbulence in a Bounded Low-Plasma Experiment
- 17 November 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 79 (20) , 3913-3916
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.3913
Abstract
The transition scenario from stability to drift wave turbulence is experimentally investigated in a magnetized low- plasma with cylindrical geometry. It is demonstrated that the temporal dynamics is determined by the interaction and destabilization of spatiotemporal patterns, in particular, traveling waves. The analysis of the temporal and the spatiotemporal data shows that the bifurcations sequence towards weakly developed turbulence follows the Ruelle-Takens scenario.
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