Comment on the vortices of the early phase of the ELMs

2020/11/23 by F. Spineanu, M. Vlad, Spineanu, Florin +1
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2011.11782

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Abstract

We discuss a possible perspective on the process of transition from the layer of sheared poloidal rotation in the H-mode to a set of discrete filaments that concentrate vorticity and current density. They may be precursors of the Edge Localized Modes.

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