A dynamical model of plasma turbulence in the solar wind

GG Howes - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A dynamical approach, rather than the usual statistical approach, is taken to explore the
physical mechanisms underlying the nonlinear transfer of energy, the damping of the …

Alfvén wave collisions, the fundamental building block of plasma turbulence. I. Asymptotic solution

GG Howes, KD Nielson - Physics of Plasmas, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The nonlinear interaction between counterpropagating Alfvén waves is the physical
mechanism underlying the cascade of energy to small scales in astrophysical plasma …

[HTML][HTML] Laboratory space physics: Investigating the physics of space plasmas in the laboratory

GG Howes - Physics of plasmas, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Laboratory experiments provide a valuable complement to explore the fundamental physics
of space plasmas without the limitations inherent to spacecraft measurements. Specifically …

[HTML][HTML] Predicted impacts of proton temperature anisotropy on solar wind turbulence

KG Klein, GG Howes - Physics of Plasmas, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Particle velocity distributions measured in the weakly collisional solar wind are frequently
found to be non-Maxwellian, but how these non-Maxwellian distributions impact the physics …

Spatially localized particle energization by Landau damping in current sheets produced by strong Alfvén wave collisions

GG Howes, AJ McCubbin, KG Klein - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2018 - cambridge.org
Understanding the removal of energy from turbulent fluctuations in a magnetized plasma
and the consequent energization of the constituent plasma particles is a major goal of …

Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas. Part 1. Dynamical equations and basic dynamics of interacting resonant triads

JM TenBarge, B Ripperda, A Chernoglazov… - Journal of Plasma …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Alfvén wave collisions are the primary building blocks of the non-relativistic turbulence that
permeates the heliosphere and low-to moderate-energy astrophysical systems. However …

Observation of an Alfvén wave parametric instability in a laboratory plasma

S Dorfman, TA Carter - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
A shear Alfvén wave parametric instability is observed for the first time in the laboratory.
When a single finite ω/Ω i kinetic Alfvén wave (KAW) is launched in the Large Plasma …

Nonlinear energy transfer and current sheet development in localized Alfvén wavepacket collisions in the strong turbulence limit

JL Verniero, GG Howes, KG Klein - Journal of plasma physics, 2018 - cambridge.org
In space and astrophysical plasmas, turbulence is responsible for transferring energy from
large scales driven by violent events or instabilities, to smaller scales where turbulent …

The inherently three-dimensional nature of magnetized plasma turbulence

GG Howes - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2015 - cambridge.org
It is often asserted or implicitly assumed, without justification, that the results of two-
dimensional investigations of plasma turbulence are applicable to the three-dimensional …

Turbulence generation during the head-on collision of Alfvénic wave packets

O Pezzi, F Malara, S Servidio, F Valentini, TN Parashar… - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
The description of the Moffatt and Parker problem recently revisited by O. Pezzi et
al.[Astrophys. J. 834, 166 (2017) 1538-4357 10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/166] is here …