Solar wind turbulence and the role of ion instabilities

O Alexandrova, CHK Chen, L Sorriso-Valvo… - Space Science …, 2013 - Springer
Solar wind is probably the best laboratory to study turbulence in astrophysical plasmas. In
addition to the presence of magnetic field, the differences with neutral fluid isotropic …

Vlasov methods in space physics and astrophysics

M Palmroth, U Ganse, Y Pfau-Kempf… - Living reviews in …, 2018 - Springer
This paper reviews Vlasov-based numerical methods used to model plasma in space
physics and astrophysics. Plasma consists of collectively behaving charged particles that …

Particle acceleration in relativistic plasma turbulence

L Comisso, L Sironi - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Due to its ubiquitous presence, turbulence is often invoked to explain the origin of
nonthermal particles in astrophysical sources of high-energy emission. With particle-in-cell …

Coherent structures, intermittent turbulence, and dissipation in high-temperature plasmas

H Karimabadi, V Roytershteyn, M Wan… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
An unsolved problem in plasma turbulence is how energy is dissipated at small scales.
Particle collisions are too infrequent in hot plasmas to provide the necessary dissipation …

The interplay of magnetically dominated turbulence and magnetic reconnection in producing nonthermal particles

L Comisso, L Sironi - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetized turbulence and magnetic reconnection are often invoked to explain the
nonthermal emission observed from a wide variety of astrophysical sources. By means of …

Intermittency, nonlinear dynamics and dissipation in the solar wind and astrophysical plasmas

WH Matthaeus, M Wan, S Servidio… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An overview is given of important properties of spatial and temporal intermittency, including
evidence of its appearance in fluids, magnetofluids and plasmas, and its implications for …

Turbulence in space plasmas: Who needs it?

WH Matthaeus - Physics of Plasmas, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The complex nonlinear dynamical phenomenon described as turbulence, is known to have
a great impact on fluids, magnetohydrodynamic systems, and on plasmas. This paper …

Quantifying energy conversion in higher-order phase space density moments in plasmas

PA Cassak, MH Barbhuiya, H Liang, MR Argall - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Weakly collisional and collisionless plasmas are typically far from local thermodynamic
equilibrium (LTE), and understanding energy conversion in such systems is a forefront …

A kinetic model of plasma turbulence

S Servidio, F Valentini, D Perrone, A Greco… - Journal of Plasma …, 2015 - cambridge.org
A Hybrid Vlasov–Maxwell (HVM) model is presented and recent results about the link
between kinetic effects and turbulence are reviewed. Using five-dimensional (2D in space …

[HTML][HTML] Energy transfer, pressure tensor, and heating of kinetic plasma

Y Yang, WH Matthaeus, TN Parashar… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Kinetic plasma turbulence cascade spans multiple scales ranging from macroscopic fluid
flow to sub-electron scales. Mechanisms that dissipate large scale energy, terminate the …