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Intrinsic Rotation from a Residual Stress at the Boundary of a Cylindrical Laboratory Plasma
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.104.065002Abstract
An azimuthally symmetric radially sheared azimuthal flow is driven by a nondiffusive, or residual, turbulent stress localized to a narrow annular region at the boundary of a cylindrical magnetized helicon plasma device. A no-slip condition, imposed by ion-neutral flow damping outside the annular region, combined with a diffusive stress arising from turbulent and collisional viscous damping in the central plasma region, leads to net plasma rotation in the absence of momentum input.
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