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Add turbulent stress diagnostics for studying zonal flow physics.#232

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I am adding the stress diagnostics for the second time since the first attempt produced a version incompatible with the latest stella release.

The main change is the addition of the module file named diagnostics_stresses.f90. It calculates the nonlinear turbulent stresses:

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where <>_yz is the flux-surface average. Note that the code takes the ky =0 component but does not take the average over z. A post processing script is thus required.

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