Experimental evidence of low-dimensional chaotic convection dynamics in a toroidal magnetized plasma.
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In a toroidal plasma confined by a purely toroidal magnetic field with a weak vertical field superimposed a system of convection cells are generated spontaneously, interacting with a background electron density gradient. The dynamics of this interaction is low-dimensional, chaotic, and consistent with solutions of the Lorenz equations in the diffusionless limit.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
دوره 77 3 Pt 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008