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Collisionless plasma systems are often studied using fully kinetic simulations, where protons and electrons are treated as particles. Due to their computational expense, it is necessary to reduce the ion-to-electron mass ratio $m_i/m_e$ or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 J. Ng , J. Yoo , L. -J. Chen , N. Bessho , H. Ji

In this Letter, weak turbulence theory is used to investigate interactions among Alfven waves and fast and slow magnetosonic waves in collisionless low-beta plasmas. The wave kinetic equations are derived from the equations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

A fluid system is derived to describe electrostatic magnetized plasma turbulence at scales somewhat larger than the Larmor radius of a given species. It is related to the Hasegawa- Mima equation, but does not conserve enstrophy, and, as a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 G. G. Plunk

The self-consistent description of Langmuir wave and ion-sound wave turbulence in the presence of an electron beam is presented for inhomogeneous non-isothermal plasmas. Full numerical solutions of the complete set of kinetic equations for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 E. P. Kontar , H. L. Pecseli

In a strongly magnetized, magnetically dominated relativistic plasma, Alfv\'enic turbulence can extend to scales much smaller than the particle inertial scales. It leads to an energy cascade somewhat analogous to inertial- or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Cristian Vega , Stanislav Boldyrev , Vadim Roytershteyn

The linear and nonlinear evolutions of the tearing instability in a collisionless plasma with a strong guide field are analyzed on the basis of a two-field Hamiltonian gyrofluid model. The model is valid for a low ion temperature and a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Camille Granier , Dario Borgogno , Daniela Grasso , Emanuele Tassi

The before described general principles and methodology of calculating electron wave propagation in homogeneous isotropic half-infinity slab of Maxwellian plasma with indefinite but in principal value sense taken integrals in characteristic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 V. N. Soshnikov

Electron-scale surface waves are shown to be unstable in the transverse plane of a shear flow in an initially unmagnetized plasma, unlike in the (magneto)hydrodynamics case. It is found that these unstable modes have a higher growth rate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 E. P. Alves , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

The dynamics of electron-plasma waves are described at arbitrary collisionality by considering the full Coulomb collision operator. The description is based on a Hermite-Laguerre decomposition of the velocity dependence of the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 R. Jorge , P. Ricci , S. Brunner , S. Gamba , V. Konovets , N. F. Loureiro , L. M. Perrone , N. Teixeira

A nonlinear two dimensional fluid model of whistler turbulence is developed that nonlinearly couples wave magnetic field with electron density perturbations. This coupling leads essentially to finite compressibility effects in whistler…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dastgeer Shaikh

We analyze plasma heating in weakly collisional kinetic Alfv\'en wave (KAW) turbulence using high resolution gyrokinetic simulations spanning the range of scales between the ion and the electron gyroradii. Real space structures that have a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 A. B. Navarro , B. Teaca , D. Told , D. Groselj , P. Crandall , F. Jenko

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

Previously developed method for finding asymptotic solutions of Vlasov equations using two-dimensional (in coordinate x and time t) Laplace transform is applied to low-collision electron-ion plasmas. Taking into account Coulomb collisions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 V. N. Soshnikov

We investigate compressive turbulence at sub-ion scales with measurements from the Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission. The tetrahedral configuration and high time resolution density data obtained by calibrating spacecraft potential allow an…

We present a multi-diagnostic electromagnetic study of kinetic Alfv\'{e}n wave (KAW) activity in Earth's magnetosheath using burst-mode measurements from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. We apply this analysis to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Mani K Chettri , Rupak Mukherjee , Hemam D. Singh

We present a theoretical framework for describing electromagnetic kinetic turbulence in a multi-species, magnetized, pressure-anisotropic plasma. Turbulent fluctuations are assumed to be small compared to the mean field, to be spatially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Matthew W. Kunz , Ian G. Abel , Kristopher G. Klein , Alexander A. Schekochihin

A pair of nonlinear diffusion equations in Fourier space} is used to study the dynamics of strong Alfv\'en-wave turbulence, from MHD to electron scales. Special attention is paid to the regime of imbalance between the energies of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 George Miloshevich , Thierry Passot , Pierre-Louis Sulem

A refined cascade model for kinetic turbulence in weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas is presented that includes both the transition between weak and strong turbulence and the effect of nonlocal interactions on the nonlinear transfer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. G. Howes , J. M. TenBarge , W. Dorland

We present results from three-dimensional hybrid-kinetic simulations of Alfv\'enic turbulence in a high-beta, collisionless plasma. The key feature of such turbulence is the interplay between local wave--wave interactions between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-03 Lev Arzamasskiy , Matthew W. Kunz , Jonathan Squire , Eliot Quataert , Alexander A. Schekochihin

A phenomenological turbulence model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves in a magnetizedcollisionless plasma, able to reproduce the non-universalpower-law spectra observed at the sub-ion scales in the solar wind and the terrestrial magnetosphere, is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem