PLASMA TURBULENCE ANALYSIS IN TEXAS HELIMAK

Dennis Toufen¹; Felipe Pereira²; Zwinglio Guimarães-Filho²; Ibere Caldas Caldas²; Ken Gentle³

¹ Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo; ² University of São Paulo; ³ The University of Texas at Austin

doi:10.20906/CPS/NSC2016-0082

Resumo

We analyze alterations on the electrostatic plasma turbulence in experiments with imposed bias to control the plasma radial electric field in Texas Helimak (K. W. Gentle and H. He, Plasma Sci. and Technology 10, 284 (2008)), a toroidal plasma device with a one-dimensional equilibrium, magnetic curvature, and shear.

Palavras-chave: Plasma Turbulence; Texas Helimak; Turbulence control