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Nonlinear saturation and oscillations of collisionless zonal flows

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0 Published in 2019 at "New Journal of Physics"

DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab2251

Abstract: In homogeneous drift-wave turbulence, zonal flows (ZFs) can be generated via a modulational instability (MI) that either saturates monotonically or leads to oscillations of the ZF energy at the nonlinear stage. This dynamics is often… read more here.

Keywords: saturation oscillations; nonlinear saturation; zonal flows; zfs ... See more keywords