Turbulent momentum transport due to neoclassical flows

@article{Lee2015TurbulentMT,
  title={Turbulent momentum transport due to neoclassical flows},
  author={Jungpyo Lee and Michael Barnes and Felix I. Parra and Emily A. Belli and Jeff Candy},
  journal={Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion},
  year={2015},
  volume={57}
}
Intrinsic toroidal rotation in a tokamak can be driven by turbulent momentum transport due to neoclassical flow effects breaking a symmetry of turbulence. In this paper we categorize the contributions due to neoclassical effects to the turbulent momentum transport, and evaluate each contribution using gyrokinetic simulations. We find that the relative importance of each contribution changes with collisionality. For low collisionality, the dominant contributions come from neoclassical particle… 
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