A collisional drift wave description of plasma edge turbulence
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 27 (3) , 611-618
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864660
Abstract
Model mode‐coupling equations for the resistive drift wave instability are numerically solved for realistic parameters found in tokamak edge plasmas. The Bohm diffusion is found to result if the parallel wavenumber is chosen to maximize the growth rate for a given value of the perpendicular wavenumber. The saturated turbulence energy has a broad frequency spectrum with a large fluctuation level proportional to κ̄ (=ρs/Ln, the normalized inverse scale length of the density gradient) and a wavenumber spectrum of the two‐dimensional Kolmogorov–Kraichnan type, ∼k−3.Keywords
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