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Non-diffusive, non-local transport in fluids and plasmas
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Abstract. A review of non-diffusive transport in fluids and plasmas is presented. In the fluid context, non-diffusive chaotic transport by Rossby waves in zonal flows is studied following a Lagrangian approach. In the plasma physics context the problem of interest is test particle transport in pressure-gradient-driven plasma turbulence. In both systems the probability density function (PDF) of particle displacements is strongly non-Gaussian and the statistical moments exhibit super-diffusive anomalous scaling. Fractional diffusion models are proposed and tested in the quantitative description of the non-diffusive Lagrangian statistics of the fluid and plasma problems. Also, fractional diffusion operators are used to construct non-local transport models exhibiting up-hill transport, multivalued flux-gradient relations, fast pulse propagation phenomena, and "tunneling" of perturbations across transport barriers.
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Citation: del-Castillo-Negrete, D.: Non-diffusive, non-local transport in fluids and plasmas, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 17, 795-807, doi:10.5194/npg-17-795-2010, 2010. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
