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 …

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 …

Dissipation and heating in solar wind turbulence: from the macro to the micro and back again

KH Kiyani, KT Osman… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The past decade has seen a flurry of research activity focused on discerning the physics of
kinetic scale turbulence in high-speed astrophysical plasma flows. By 'kinetic'we mean …

Kinetic scale turbulence and dissipation in the solar wind: key observational results and future outlook

ML Goldstein, RT Wicks, S Perri… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Turbulence is ubiquitous in the solar wind. Turbulence causes kinetic and magnetic energy
to cascade to small scales where they are eventually dissipated, adding heat to the plasma …

Third-moment descriptions of the interplanetary turbulent cascade, intermittency and back transfer

JT Coburn, MA Forman, CW Smith… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We review some aspects of solar wind turbulence with an emphasis on the ability of the
turbulence to account for the observed heating of the solar wind. Particular attention is paid …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma and magnetic field turbulence in the Earth's magnetosheath at ion scales

L Rakhmanova, M Riazantseva… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Crossing the Earth's bow shock is known to crucially affect solar wind plasma including
changes in turbulent cascade. The present review summarizes results of more than 15 years …

Power spectral density of fluctuations of bulk and thermal speeds in the solar wind

J Šafránková, Z Němeček, F Němec… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper analyzes solar wind power spectra of bulk and thermal speed fluctuations that
are computed with a time resolution of 32 ms in the frequency range of 0.001–2 Hz. The …

Generalized self-similarity of intermittent plasma turbulence in space and laboratory plasmas

VP Budaev, LM Zelenyi, SP Savin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2015 - cambridge.org
Statistical characteristics of plasma fluctuations in the solar wind (SW), the Earth's
magnetosphere and fusion devices are reviewed. The turbulence in all these media has a …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale solar wind phenomena affecting the turbulent cascade evolution behind the quasi-perpendicular bow shock

LS Rakhmanova, MO Riazantseva, GN Zastenker… - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Earth's magnetosphere is permanently influenced by the solar wind. When supersonic
and superalfvenic plasma flow interacts with the magnetosphere, the magnetosheath region …

Density fluctuations upstream and downstream of interplanetary shocks

A Pitňa, J Šafránková, Z Němeček… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Interplanetary (IP) shocks as typical large-scale disturbances arising from processes such as
stream–stream interactions or Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) launching play a …