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    Dependence of turbulent transport on GAMs

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    Nonlinear three-dimensional flows in magnetized plasmas. Invited Paper

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    Theory of external geodesic acoustic mode excitation

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    Numerical studies of zonal flow turbulence interaction

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    Theory of external geodesic acoustic mode generation

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    Modulation instability of drift waves

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    The instability of drift waves against zonal flows and streamers is discussed. Unlike in previous treatments, we do not make the assumption that their frequency is resonant with driftwave packets. In this more general treatment we find at least two unstable roots even in the simple case of a monochromatic pump drift wave, and potentially an infinite multitude of roots for a more complicated drift wave spectrum. One of them is the well known modulational instability in resonance with the drift wave packets; the other is a new instability corresponding to the inelastic refraction of drift waves at the streamer. It is nontrivial which of the many roots is the most unstable one

    Excitation of Geodesic Acoustic Modes by External Fields

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    Radial propagation of geodesic acoustic modes

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    The GAM group velocity is estimated from the ratio of the radial free energy flux to the total free energy applying gyrokinetic and two-fluid theory. This method is much more robust than approaches that calculate the group velocity directly and can be generalized to include additional physics, e.g. magnetic geometry. The results are verified with the gyrokinetic code GYRO [J. Candy and R. E. Waltz, J. Comp. Phys. 186, pp. 545-581 (2003)], the two-fluid code NLET [K. Hallatschek and A. Zeiler, Physics of Plasmas 7, pp. 2554-2564 (2000)], and analytical calculations. GAM propagation must be kept in mind when discussing the windows of GAM activity observed experimentally and the match between linear theory and experimental GAM frequencies.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures. This article has been published in Physics of Plasmas 5, 072503 (2009). It can be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/16/072503/
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