Poloidal Flow Driven by Ion-Temperature-Gradient Turbulence in Tokamaks
- 26 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (4), 724-727
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.724
Abstract
We show that linear collisionless processes do not damp poloidal flows driven by ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) turbulence. Since these flows play an important role in saturating the level of the turbulence, this level, as well as the transport caused by ITG modes, may be overestimated by gyrofluid simulations, which employ linear collisionless rotation damping.Keywords
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