Geodesic acoustic modes in magnetic confinement devices

GD Conway, AI Smolyakov, T Ido - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are ubiquitous oscillatory flow phenomena observed in
toroidal magnetic confinement fusion plasmas, such as tokamaks and stellarators. They are …

Kinetic theory of geodesic acoustic modes in toroidal plasmas: a brief review

QIU Zhiyong, C Liu, F Zonca - Plasma Science and Technology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAM) are oscillating zonal structures unique to toroidal plasmas,
and have been extensively studied in the past decades due to their potential capabilities of …

Plasma elongation effects on energetic particle-induced geodesic acoustic modes in tokamaks

Z Chen, H Ren, CM Roach - Nuclear Fusion, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma elongation effects on energetic particle-induced geodesic acoustic modes (EGAMs)
are theoretically investigated by using gyro-kinetic equations and the Miller local equilibrium …

Simulation of energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic modes and the energy channeling in the large helical device plasmas

H Wang, Y Todo, M Oasakabe, T Ido, Y Suzuki - Nuclear Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic modes (EGAMs) in Large Helical Device
plasmas are investigated using MEGA code. MEGA is a hybrid simulation code for energetic …

Enhancement and suppression of turbulence by energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic modes

M Sasaki, K Itoh, K Hallatschek, N Kasuya, M Lesur… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We propose a novel mechanism of enhancement of turbulence by energetic-particle-driven
geodesic acoustic modes (EGAMs). The dynamics of drift-wave-type turbulence in the phase …

On the energetic particle-induced geodesic acoustic modes with finite-orbit-width effects

Z Chen, Y Li, H Ren, CM Roach - Nuclear Fusion, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
This study presents an analytical investigation of energetic particle-induced geodesic
acoustic modes (EGAMs) within a gyro-kinetic model, incorporating finite-orbit-width (FOW) …

Saturation of energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic modes due to wave–particle nonlinearity

A Biancalani, I Chavdarovski, Z Qiu… - Journal of Plasma …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The nonlinear dynamics of energetic-particle (EP) driven geodesic acoustic modes (EGAM)
is investigated here. A numerical analysis with the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code …

Particle transport due to energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic modes

D Zarzoso, D Del-Castillo-Negrete, DF Escande… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport of particles in the presence of energetic geodesic acoustic modes (EGAMs) is
analysed by means of full-f global gyro-kinetic simulations, using the multi-species version of …

Energetic particle-induced geodesic acoustic modes on DIII-D

DJ Lin, WW Heidbrink, NA Crocker, XD Du… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Various properties of the energetic particle-induced geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) are
explored in this large database analysis of DIII-D experimental data. EGAMs are n= 0 modes …

Toroidal momentum channeling of geodesic acoustic modes driven by fast ions

M Sasaki, N Kasuya, K Itoh, Y Kosuga, M Lesur… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Toroidal momentum channeling by fast ion-driven geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) is
proposed based on a quasi-linear analysis. We focus on a branch due to the magnetic drift …