On the nature of bursting in transport and turbulence in drift wave–zonal flow systems
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چکیده
The predictions of the extended predator–prey model of the coupled spectral dynamics of drift wave–zonal flow turbulence are presented. The model exhibits three possible types of time-dependent solutions, depending on system parameters, which are: !1" quasiperiodic bursting of the transport and turbulence intensity levels; !2" oscillatory relaxation to a stationary state, and in the collisionless limit; !3" an intensity pulse followed by saturation of zonal flow. These solutions are consistent with the time dependent behavior recently observed in the global gyrokinetic simulations. © 2001 American Institute of Physics. #DOI: 10.1063/1.1415424$
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