Project on Jet Formation in Drift Wave Turbulence

Farrell, B. F., & Ioannou, P. J. (2009). A Stochastic Structural Stability Theory model of the drift wave-zonal flow system. . In Physics of Plasmas (Vol. 16, pp. 112903-18) . American Institute of Physics.Abstract

A remarkable phenomenon in turbulent flows is the spontaneous emergence of coherent large spatial scale zonal jets. In this work a comprehensive theory for the interaction of jets with turbulence, stochastic structural stability theory, is applied to the problem of understanding the formation and maintenance of the zonal jets that are crucial for enhancing plasma confinement in fusion devices