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Recent experimental results in the TJ-II stellarator prove the existence of long-distance correlations | Recent experimental results in the TJ-II stellarator prove the existence of long-distance correlations | ||
in the electrostatic potential around the bifurcation point for the emergence of the plasma edge sheared | in the electrostatic potential around the bifurcation point for the emergence of the plasma edge sheared | ||
flow layer <ref>[http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/i21/e215003 M. A. Pedrosa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215003 (2008)]</ref. In Ref. <ref>[http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=68892777.7/0741-3335/51/6/065007 I. Calvo et al., Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51 065007 (2009)]</ref> we have formulated a phenomenological model which based on the paradigm of flow shear generation by Reynolds stress and turbulence supression by shear. We suggest that the experimental results might be an indirect evidence of the development of poloidally asymmetric zonal flows. | flow layer <ref>[http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/i21/e215003 M. A. Pedrosa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215003 (2008)]</ref. In Ref. | ||
<ref>[http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=68892777.7/0741-3335/51/6/065007 I. Calvo et al., Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51 065007 (2009)]</ref> | |||
we have formulated a phenomenological model which based on the paradigm of flow shear generation by Reynolds stress and turbulence supression by | |||
shear. We suggest that the experimental results might be an indirect evidence of the development of poloidally asymmetric zonal flows. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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