By employing Braginskii transport equations for ions and Boltzmann distribution for electrons in a dust-contaminated plasma with equilibrium density, temperature, and magnetic field gradients, the nonlinear set of equations are derived. New ion-temperature-gradient driven modes are obtained and various limiting cases are discussed. It is shown that the ion-temperature-gradient driven mode of drift-waves are attenuated in the presence of dust-charge fluctuations. It has been found that dust charging is always dissipative and the growth rate of various modes are damped. Furthermore, the possible stationary solution of the nonlinear mode coupling equations can be represented in the form of dipolar and vortex chains type solutions. The results of the present investigation should be helpful in understanding the fluctuations and transport phenomena in magnetically confined dustcontaminated tokamak plasma.
Electrostatic ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) driven drift waves are investigated by using Brangskii's model for the ions and Boltzmann distribution for the electrons in a dust-contaminated plasma with equilibrium density, temperature, and magnetic field gradients. Within the local approximation, we are able to recover the coupled ion-acoustic drift-waves in an inhomogeneous magnetic field and the Rudakov-Sagdeev (R-S) ITG instability in the presence of dust-charge fluctuations. It has been shown that the dust charging is always dissipative and the growth rate of various modes are damped. Furthermore, we also derive an expression for the anomalous ion-energy flux and transport coefficient in the presence of nonthermal fluctuations. The present investigation should be helpful in identifying the features of low-frequency turbulence and associated cross-field ion-energy transport in magnetically confined dust-contaminated tokamak plasmas.
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