2018/10/11 by F. A. Marcus, Marcus, F. A., Marisa Roberto +7 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1810.05044
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In tokamaks, internal transport barriers, produced by modifications of the plasma current profile, reduce particle transport and improve plasma confinement. The triggering of the internal transport barriers and their dependence on the plasma profiles is a key nonlinear dynamics problem still under investigation. We consider the onset of shearless invariant curves inside the plasma which create internal transport barriers. A non-integrable drift-kinetic model is used to describe particle transport driven by drift waves and to investigate these shearless barriers onset in tokamaks. We show that for some currently observed plasma profiles shearless particle transport barriers can be triggered by properly modifying the electric field profile and the influence of non-resonant modes in the barriers onset. In particular, we show that a broken barrier can be restored by enhancing non-resonant modes.