Journal article
Analysis of chaos in plasma turbulence
A two-dimensional slab model for resistive drift waves in plasmas consisting of two coupled nonlinear partial differential equations for the density perturbation n and the electrostatic potential perturbation phi is investigated. The drift waves are linearly unstable, and a quasi-stationary turbulent state is reached in a finite time, independent of the initial conditions.
Different regimes of the turbulent state can be obtained by varying the coupling parameter C, related to the parallel electron dynamics. The turbulence is described by using particle tracking and tools from chaos analysis. The largest Lyapunov exponent lambda(1) is calculated for different values of C to quantify the chaoticity and compared with Lagrangian inverse time scales obtained by tracking virtual fluid particles.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 1996 |
Pages: | 30-32 |
Proceedings: | International Conference on Complex Dynamics in Spatially Extended Systems |
ISSN: | 00318949 , 14024896 and 02811847 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1088/0031-8949/1996/T67/006 |
ORCIDs: | Michelsen, Poul and Juul Rasmussen, J. |