Particle transport through localized interactions with sharp magnetic field bends in MHD turbulence

M Lemoine - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Particle transport through localized interactions with sharp magnetic field bends in MHD
turbulence Page 1 J. Plasma Phys. (2023), vol. 89, 175890501 © The Author(s), 2023 …

Large-scale structure and turbulence transport in the inner solar wind: Comparison of Parker Solar Probe's first five orbits with a Global 3D Reynolds-averaged MHD …

R Chhiber, AV Usmanov, WH Matthaeus… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Simulation results from a global magnetohydrodynamic model of the solar corona and solar
wind are compared with Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations during its first five orbits …

Pressure–strain interaction. II. Decomposition in magnetic field-aligned coordinates

PA Cassak, MH Barbhuiya, HA Weldon - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In weakly collisional and collisionless magnetized plasmas, the pressure–strain interaction
describes the rate of conversion between bulk flow and thermal energy density. In this study …

Magnetic curvatures of a uniformly magnetized tesseroid using the Cartesian kernels

XL Deng, WB Shen, M Kuhn, C Hirt, R Pail - Surveys in Geophysics, 2020 - Springer
In recent years, the gravitational curvatures, the third-order derivatives of the gravitational
potential (GP), of a tesseroid have been introduced in the context of gravity field modeling …

Discontinuity analysis of the leading switchback transition regions

M Akhavan-Tafti, J Kasper, J Huang, S Bale - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Magnetic switchbacks are magnetic structures characterized as intervals of sudden
reversal in the radial component of the pristine solar wind's magnetic field. Switchbacks …

First-order derivatives of principal and main invariants of magnetic gradient tensor of a uniformly magnetized tesseroid and spherical shell

XL Deng, WB Shen, M Yang, M Kuhn, J Ran - Surveys in Geophysics, 2022 - Springer
Similar to the gravitational curvatures in the gravity field, the magnetic curvatures (ie, third-
order derivatives of the magnetic potential) have been recently proposed in the magnetic …

Particle-in-cell Simulation of Energy Conversion at the Turbulent Region Downstream of the Reconnection Front

Y Yi, Y Pang, L Song, R Jin, X Deng - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the energy conversion in the turbulent region (TR) downstream of the reconnection
front (RF) via 2.5 D particle-in-cell simulations. Our study shows that most magnetic energy …

Observations of magnetic field line curvature and its role in the space plasma turbulence

SY Huang, J Zhang, F Sahraoui, ZG Yuan… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent numerical simulations of plasma turbulence showed that magnetic field line
curvature plays a key role in particle energization. Based on in situ high-resolution data …

Magnetic Energy Conversion in Magnetohydrodynamics: Curvature Relaxation and Perpendicular Expansion of Magnetic Fields

S Du, H Li, X Fu, Z Gan, S Li - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The mechanisms and pathways of magnetic energy conversion are an important subject for
many laboratory, space, and astrophysical systems. Here, we present a perspective on …

Curvature of magnetic field and its role on plasma in turbulent magnetosheath

Y Ji, C Shen, N Ren, L Ma, YH Ma… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This study presents statistical features of magnetic field curvature in the magnetosheath
region. Two sets of high-quality field and plasma data measured by the Magnetospheric …