Vlad Madalina
National Institute of Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Bucharest, Romania.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2013 May;87(5):053105. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.053105. Epub 2013 May 14.
Test modes on turbulent magnetized plasmas are studied taking into account the stochastic ion trapping or eddying that characterizes the E×B drift in the background turbulence. It is shown that ion trapping provides an important physical mechanism for the complex nonlinear processes in drift turbulence evolution: generation of large-scale correlations and of zonal flow modes.