@article{8566,
  author = {M.J. Pueschel and D. R. Hatch and M. Kotschenreuther and A. Ishizawa and G. Merlo},
  title = {Multi-Scale Interactions of Microtearing Turbulence in the Tokamak Pedestal},
  abstract = {Microtearing turbulence in an idealized pedestal scenario is found to saturate via zonal fields, while also exciting strong zonal flows; a concurrent upshift of the non-linear critical gradient is observed. The zonal flows cause electron-temperature-gradient-driven turbulence to be ameliorated. When applying resonant magnetic perturbations, the prompt charge loss off the flux surface erodes the zonal flow, leading to higher electron-scale fluxes, while leaving microtearing saturation physics unaffected.
},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
  volume = {60},
  pages = {124005},
  publisher = {IOP Publishing},
  doi = {10.1088/1741-4326/abba49},
  language = {eng},
}