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Turbulence simulation codes can exploit the flute-like nature of plasma turbulence to reduce the effective number of degrees of freedom necessary to represent fluctuations. This can be achieved by employing magnetic coordinates of which one…

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Observations of galaxy clusters show that the intracluster medium (ICM) is likely to be turbulent and is certainly magnetized. The properties of this magnetized turbulence are determined both by fundamental nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley

The emission from the relativistically hot plasmas of high-energy astrophysical synchrotron sources, pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) in particular, depends on the level of magnetic fluctuations. Recent observations by the X-ray polarimeter IXPE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Luca Del Zanna , Niccolò Bucciantini , Simone Landi

Turbulence in a conducting plasma can amplify seed magnetic fields in what is known as the turbulent, or small-scale, dynamo. The associated growth rate and emergent magnetic-field geometry depend sensitively on the material properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-17 Alisa K. Galishnikova , Matthew W. Kunz , Alexander A. Schekochihin

Turbulent transport provides the main contribution to particle and energy losses in tokamak plasmas, which control is of paramount importance for forthcoming reactors such as the Divertor-Tokamak-Test (DTT) facility under construction at…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 F. Cianfrani , G. Montani

Large-amplitude turbulence -- characterized by a fluctuating magnetic field component, $\delta B$, that is stronger than the mean component, $B_0$ -- is generically intermittent, populated with intense localized structures such as sharp…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Ryan Golant , Luca Comisso , Philipp Kempski , Lorenzo Sironi

A feedforward scheme is applied for drift waves control in a magnetized magnetron sputtering plasma. A system of driven electrodes collecting electron current in a limited region of the explored plasma is used to interact with unstable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. Martines , M. Zuin , R. Cavazzana , J. Adámek , V. Antoni , G. Serianni , M. Spolaore , N. Vianello

Turbulent motions due to flux-driven thermal convection is investigated by numerical simulations and stochastic modelling. Tilting of convection cells leads to the formation of sheared flows and quasi-periodic relaxation oscillations for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 G. Decristoforo , A. Theodorsen , O. E. Garcia

We perform a high-resolution two-dimensional fully-kinetic numerical simulation of a turbulent plasma system with observation-driven conditions, in order to investigate the interplay between turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and particle…

In magnetized, stratified astrophysical environments such as the Sun's corona and solar wind, Alfv\'enic fluctuations ''reflect'' from background gradients, enabling nonlinear interactions and thus dissipation of their energy into heat.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Romain Meyrand , Jonathan Squire , Alfred Mallet , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Through the enhancement of transport, turbulence is expected to contribute to the fast reconnection. However the effects of turbulence are not so straightforward. In addition to the enhancement of transport, turbulence under some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-01-09 Nobumitsu Yokoi , Katsuaki Higashimori , Masahiro Hoshino

Tangled magnetic fields, often coexisting with an ordered mean field, have a major impact on turbulence and momentum transport in many plasmas, including those found in the solar tachocline and magnetic confinement devices. We present a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Chang-Chun Chen , Patrick H. Diamond , Rameswar Singh , Steven M. Tobias

The effect of electrostatic microturbulence on fast particles rapidly decreases at high energy, but can be significant at moderate energy. Previous studies found that, in addition to changes in the energetic particle density, this results…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 George J. Wilkie

Azimuthal flow is driven in the edge of the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) [W. Gekelman, {\itshape et. al}, Rev. Sci. Instr. {\bfseries 62}, 2875 (1991)] through biasing a section of the vacuum vessel relative to the plasma source cathode. As…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. A. Carter , J. E. Maggs

Flux tube simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators and tokamaks typically employ coordinates which are aligned with the magnetic field lines. Anisotropic turbulent fluctuations can be represented in such field-aligned coordinates…

We study the cascading of fast MHD modes in magnetically dominated plasma by performing one-dimensional (1D) dynamical simulations. We find that the cascading becomes more efficient as an angle between wave vector and underlying magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 T. K. Suzuki , A. Lazarian , A. Beresnyak

Recent observations reveal that magnetic turbulence in the nearly colisionless solar wind plasma extends to scales smaller than the plasma microscales, such as ion gyroradius and ion inertial length. Measured breaks in the spectra of…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Stanislav Boldyrev , Christopher H. K. Chen , Qian Xia , Vladimir Zhdankin

In-situ observations in the Earth's and Saturn's magnetosheaths and in the solar wind reveal the presence of Alfv\'en vortices as intermittent structures in the range of scales from fluid lengths down to few ion lengths. The density and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Dusan Jovanovic , Olga Alexandrova , Milan Maksimovic , Milivoj Belic

Solar wind turbulence is often perceived as weakly compressible and the density fluctuations remain poorly understood both theoretically and observationally. Compressible magnetohydrodynamic simulations provide useful insights into the…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Senbei Du , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Xiangrong Fu

Turbulence in space plasmas usually exhibits two regimes separated by a spectral break that divides the so called inertial and kinetic ranges. Large scale magnetic fluctuations are dominated by non-linear MHD wave-wave interactions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Pablo S. Moya , Roberto E. Navarro