Gyrokinetic simulation of entropy cascade in two-dimensional electrostatic turbulence
Proceedings of the 7th General Scientific Assembly of the Asia Plasma and Fusion Association in 2009 (APFA2009) and Asia-Pacific Plasma Theory Conference in 2009 (APPTC2009) Japan Society of Plasma Science and Fusion Research 9 (2010) 509-516
Abstract:
Two-dimensional electrostatic turbulence in magnetized weakly-collisional plasmas exhibits a cascade of entropy in phase space [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 015003 (2009)]. At scales smaller than the gyroradius, this cascade is characterized by the dimensionless ratio D of the collision time to the eddy turnover time measured at the scale of the thermal Larmor radius. When D >> 1, a broad spectrum of fluctuations at sub-Larmor scales is found in both position and velocity space. The distribution function develops structure as a function of v⊥, the velocity coordinate perpendicular to the local magnetic field. The cascade shows a local-scale nonlinear interaction in both position and velocity spaces, and Kolmogorov’s scaling theory can be extended into phase space.Direct multiscale coupling of a transport code to gyrokinetic turbulence codesa)
Physics of Plasmas AIP Publishing 17:5 (2010) 056109