Spectrum of Subcritical Turbulence in an Inhomogeneous Plasma

Sanae I. Itoh, Kimitaka Itoh

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Abstract

A spectrum of fully developed turbulence via subcritical excitation in an inhomogeneous plasma is obtained. The dressed-test-mode analysis is developed, in which a dielectric tensor containing renormalized transfer rates is solved. The energy spectrum of the form E(k) ∝ G0k−3 is obtained in the energy-containing region. (G0 denotes the driving, which is the product of the gradients of plasma pressure and magnetic field.) Turbulent kinetic energy, W ∝ G02, and transport coefficient, χT ∝ G03/2, are found to be nonlinear functions of G0, which presents a typical example of nonlinear, nonequilibrium transport.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1571-1574
Number of pages4
Journaljournal of the physical society of japan
Volume66
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1997

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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