Growth of Nonlinear Zonal Flow

This figure shows the first steps of growth of a nonlinear zonal flow in a PIC numerical simulation of gyrokinetic ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) turbulence in a tokamak fusion plasma.
The data used in the visualization were produced using the UCAN gyrokinetic code at the ARSC supercomputers located at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Image | Image(s) courtesy of Raul Sanchez, Senior R&D staff member in the Fusion Energy Division at ORNL |
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