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Recent work has shown that ions are strongly coupled in atmospheric pressure plasmas when the ionization fraction is sufficiently large, leading to a temperature increase from disorder-induced heating that is not accounted for in standard…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Jarett LeVan , Marco Acciarri , Scott Baalrud

Unraveling the origin of proton beams and ion Bernstein waves is important to understanding kinetic dissipation in the solar wind. Here we focus on their generation mechanisms, rather than their well-studied roles in instabilities and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Chuanpeng Hou , Huirong Yan , Siqi Zhao

Decay in time of undriven weakly collisional kinetic plasma turbulence in systems large compared to the ion kinetic scales is investigated using fully electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations initiated with transverse flow and magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Wu , M. Wan , W. H. Matthaeus , M. A. Shay , M. Swisdak

In a collisionless plasma, the energy distribution function of plasma particles can be strongly affected by turbulence. In particular, it can develop a non-thermal power-law tail at high energies. We argue that turbulence with initially…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Cristian Vega , Stanislav Boldyrev , Vadim Roytershteyn , Mikhail Medvedev

We investigate the nature of dissipative instability appearing in a prominence planar thread filled with partially ionised plasma in the incompressible limit. The importance of partial ionisation is investigated in terms of the ionisation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 I. Ballai , B. Pinter , R. Oliver , M. Alexandrou

We present the first study of the formation and dissipation of current sheets at electron scales in a wave-driven, weakly collisional, 3D kinetic turbulence simulation. We investigate the relative importance of dissipation associated with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. M. TenBarge , G. G. Howes

We investigate the hydrodynamics of the QCD plasma using dimensionless numbers built from the thermodynamics and transport theory of the plasma and characteristic dimensions of the fireball produced in heavy-ion collisions. We find that by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sourendu Gupta

Electron plasmas confined by an external magnetic field exhibit variations in a two-dimensional plane orthogonal to the confining magnetic field. A nonlinear fluid simulation code to investigate the properties of 2-D electron plasma wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , P. K. Shukla

We propose two-equations models in order to capture the dynamics of a turbulent plasma undergoing compression and experiencing large viscosity variations. The models account for possible relaminarization phases and rapid viscosity changes…

The fundamental higher-order Landau plasma modes are known to be generally heavily damped. We show that these modes for the ion component in a weakly ionized plasma can be substantially modified by ion-neutral collisions and a dc electric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Roman Kompaneets , Alexei V. Ivlev , Sergey V. Vladimirov , Gregor E. Morfill

We describe a hybrid molecular dynamics approach for the description of ultracold neutral plasmas, based on an adiabatic treatment of the electron gas and a full molecular dynamics simulation of the ions, which allows us to follow the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Pohl , T. Pattard

A dissipation rate, which grows faster than any power of the wave number in Fourier space, may be scaled to lead a hydrodynamic system {\it actually} or {\it potentially} converge to its Galerkin truncation. Actual convergence we name for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 Jian-Zhou Zhu , Mark Taylor

We perform 2D and 3D kinetic simulations of reconnection-mediated turbulent flares in a magnetized electron-positron plasma, with weak and strong radiative cooling. Such flares can be generated around neutron stars and accreting black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 J. Nättilä , A. M. Beloborodov

Compressibility effects in a turbulent transport of temperature field are investigated applying the quasi-linear approach for small P\'eclet numbers and the spectral $\tau$ approach for large P\'eclet numbers. Compressibility of a fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-27 I. Rogachevskii , N. Kleeorin

Electromagnetic turbulence and ion kinetics in counter-streaming plasmas hold great significance in laboratory astrophysics, such as turbulence field amplification and particle energization. Here, we quantitatively demonstrate for the first…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 P. Liu , D. Wu , T. X. Hu , D. W. Yuan , G. Zhao , Z. M. Sheng , X. T. He , J. Zhang

Theoretical and observational studies on the turbulence of the interstellar medium developed fast in the past decades. The theory of supersonic magnetized turbulence, as well as the understanding of projection effects of observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Lazarian , M. Houde

The dissipative corrections to the hydrodynamic equations describing the evolution of energy-momentum tensor and parton densities are derived in a simple way using the scaling approximation for the expanding quark gluon plasma at finite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 D. Dutta , A. K. Mohanty , K. Kumar , R. K. Choudhury

We study turbulent dissipation in the ISM and explore some implications for galaxy formation and evolution using 2D MHD numerical simulations of compressible fluids. The turbulent kinetic energy E_k is injected by stellar sources formed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Avila-Reese , E. Vázquez-Semadeni

Radiation pressure dominated accretion discs around compact objects may have turbulent velocities that greatly exceed the electron thermal velocities within the disc. Bulk Comptonization by the turbulence may therefore dominate over thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 J. Kaufman , O. M. Blaes

We investigate the role of thermal instability, arising from radiative cooling of an optically thin, dusty plasma, by linear stability analysis. The corresponding isobaric stability condition for condensation mode is found to be modified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Madhurjya P. Bora