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 …

Wave turbulence

AC Newell, B Rumpf - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
In this article, we state and review the premises on which a successful asymptotic closure of
the moment equations of wave turbulence is based, describe how and why this closure …

MHD turbulence: a biased review

AA Schekochihin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This review of scaling theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence aims to put the
developments of the last few years in the context of the canonical time line (from Kolmogorov …

Reflection-driven magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar atmosphere and solar wind

BDG Chandran, JC Perez - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2019 - cambridge.org
We present three-dimensional direct numerical simulations and an analytic model of
reflection-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the solar wind. Our simulations …

Toward a theory of astrophysical plasma turbulence at subproton scales

S Boldyrev, K Horaites, Q Xia… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analytical study of subproton electromagnetic fluctuations in a collisionless
plasma with a plasma beta of the order of unity. In the linear limit, a rigorous derivation from …

Three-dimensional simulation of the fast solar wind driven by compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

M Shoda, TK Suzuki, M Asgari-Targhi… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation, we have
reproduced the fast solar wind in a direct and self-consistent manner, based on the …

Residual energy spectrum of solar wind turbulence

CHK Chen, SD Bale, CS Salem… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
It has long been known that the energy in velocity and magnetic field fluctuations in the solar
wind is not in equipartition. In this paper, we present an analysis of 5 yr of Wind data at 1 AU …

Shell models of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

F Plunian, R Stepanov, P Frick - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
Shell models of hydrodynamic turbulence originated in the seventies. Their main aim was to
describe the statistics of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence in spectral space, using a …

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 …

On the energy spectrum of strong magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

JC Perez, J Mason, S Boldyrev, F Cattaneo - Physical Review X, 2012 - APS
The energy spectrum of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence attracts interest due to its
fundamental importance and its relevance for interpreting astrophysical data. Here we …