Excitation of geodesic acoustic modes by external fields.
It is planned to use external magnetic perturbations at acoustic frequencies at the DIII-D tokamak to attempt to drive geodesic acoustic modes (GAM) to modify the turbulent transport. We show that this might not only be possible--despite the well-known electrostatic nature of the GAMs--but might be a viable and efficient method to generate GAMs in magnetically confined plasmas, by developing an elegant analytic method which allows us to couple numerical dynamic equilibrium calculations with massively parallel non-Boussinesq turbulence code runs and yields practical estimates of the effectivity of the method.
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, EURATOM Association, Boltzmannstr 2, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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