Topology and transport

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The aim of this page is to introduce and report progress on the activities included in the research project Influence of global flows and their topology on transport in turbulent plasmas, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the grant ENE2009-07247. The members of the research team are:

  • Iván Calvo (Principal Investigator), Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, Asociación EURATOM-CIEMAT, Madrid,
  • Benjamín Carreras, BACV Solutions Inc., Oak Ridge, Tennessee & University of Alaska,
  • Irene Llerena, Universidad de Barcelona,
  • Edilberto Sánchez, Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, Asociación EURATOM-CIEMAT, Madrid,
  • Guillermo Sánchez Burillo, Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, Asociación EURATOM-CIEMAT, Madrid,
  • Boudewijn van Milligen, Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, Asociación EURATOM-CIEMAT, Madrid,

and this is a list of frequent collaborators (whose work is not directly funded by the above grant):

  • Francisco Castejón, Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, Asociación EURATOM-CIEMAT, Madrid,
  • Fernando Falceto, Universidad de Zaragoza,
  • Luis García, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid,
  • Carlos Hidalgo, Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, Asociación EURATOM-CIEMAT, Madrid,
  • M. Ángeles Pedrosa, Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, Asociación EURATOM-CIEMAT, Madrid,
  • Raúl Sánchez, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee & Universidad Carlos III, Madrid.

The aim of this proposal is to advance in the understanding of turbulent transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas by studying the topology and dynamics of global flows. We will tackle concrete problems in three broad research areas of toroidally confined plasmas: topology of structures in the presence of turbulence (or, in short, "the topology of flows"), non-diffusive transport, and transitions to improved confinement regimes. Below, we summarize the concrete objectives in each of the aforementioned research lines, as well as progress made to date.

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