LANL Abstract: Self Organization of Edge and Internal Pedestals in a Sandpile

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sat Dec 29 2001 - 05:20:36 MST


http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/abs/physics/?0110050 Physics, abstract
physics/0110050

From: Bogdan Hnat <hnat@astro.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:08:25 GMT (80kb)

Self Organization of Edge and Internal Pedestals in a Sandpile

Authors: S. C. Chapman, R. O. Dendy, B. Hnat
Subj-class: Plasma Physics; Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

     The temperature profiles of magnetically confined plasmas can
     display distinctive longlived pedestals at the edge and
     internally. Here we show that such structures can arise naturally
     through avalanching transport in a sandpile model. A single
     control parameter that is constant across the sandpile determines
     the occurrence and regularity of these effects, as well as the
     entrainment of global confinement to edge pedestal dynamics. The
     system dynamics indicate that the pedestals are a consequence of
     an inverse cascade in real space, and that self organization is
     necessary for their occurrence.

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