a Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA b Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, 617 North Santa Rita Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to investigate the formation of zonal flows that can lead to the enhanced confinement of plasma in tokamaks. We show that zonal flows can be effectively formed by resonance triad interactions in the process of the inverse cascade. We discuss what energy sources are more effective for the formation of zonal flows.