Nonlinear reconnecting edge localized modes in current-carrying plasmas

@article{Ebrahimi2017NonlinearRE,
  title={Nonlinear reconnecting edge localized modes in current-carrying plasmas},
  author={Fatima Ebrahimi},
  journal={Physics of Plasmas},
  year={2017},
  volume={24},
  pages={056119}
}
  • F. Ebrahimi
  • Published 9 February 2017
  • Physics
  • Physics of Plasmas
Nonlinear edge localized modes in a tokamak are examined using global three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Coherent current-carrying filament (ribbon-like) structures wrapped around the torus are nonlinearly formed due to nonaxisymmetric reconnecting current sheet instabilities, the so-called peeling-like edge localized modes. These fast growing modes saturate by breaking axisymmetric current layers isolated near the plasma edge and go through repetitive relaxation… 
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