Shear-flow trapped-ion-mode interaction revisited. I. Influence of low-frequency zonal flow on ion-temperature-gradient driven turbulence

Alain Ghizzo (1) , F. Palermo (2)

1 IJL - Institut Jean Lamour
2 ECL - École Centrale de Lyon

Collisionless trapped ion modes (CTIMs) turbulence exhibits a rich variety of zonal flow physics. The coupling of CTIMs with shear flow driven by the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability has been investigated. The work explores the parametric excitation of zonal flow modified by wave-particle interactions leading to a new type of resonant low-frequency zonal flow. The KH-CTIM interaction on zonal flow growth and its feedback on turbulence is investigated using semi-Lagrangian gyrokinetic Vlasov simulations based on a Hamiltonian reduction technique, where both fast scales (cyclotron plus bounce motions) are gyro-averaged.

Domaines: Physique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]

Alain Ghizzo, F. Palermo. Shear-flow trapped-ion-mode interaction revisited. I. Influence of low-frequency zonal flow on ion-temperature-gradient driven turbulence. Physics of Plasmas, 2015, 22 (8), pp.82303 - 82304. ⟨10.1063/1.4928102⟩. ⟨hal-01285771⟩