Cascades and transitions in turbulent flows

A Alexakis, L Biferale - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Turbulent flows are characterized by the non-linear cascades of energy and other inviscid
invariants across a huge range of scales, from where they are injected to where they are …

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 …

Particle acceleration via reconnection processes in the supersonic solar wind

GP Zank, JA Le Roux, GM Webb, A Dosch… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
An emerging paradigm for the dissipation of magnetic turbulence in the supersonic solar
wind is via localized small-scale reconnection processes, essentially between quasi-2D …

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 …

Diffusive shock acceleration and reconnection acceleration processes

GP Zank, P Hunana, P Mostafavi… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Shock waves, as shown by simulations and observations, can generate high levels of
downstream vortical turbulence, including magnetic islands. We consider a combination of …

25 years of self-organized criticality: solar and astrophysics

MJ Aschwanden, NB Crosby, M Dimitropoulou… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
Shortly after the seminal paper “Self-Organized Criticality: An explanation of 1/f noise” by
Bak et al.(1987), the idea has been applied to solar physics, in “Avalanches and the …

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 …

Who needs turbulence? A review of turbulence effects in the heliosphere and on the fundamental process of reconnection

WH Matthaeus, M Velli - Space science reviews, 2011 - Springer
The significant influences of turbulence in neutral fluid hydrodynamics are well accepted but
the potential for analogous effects in space and astrophysical plasmas is less widely …

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 …

Evidence for inhomogeneous heating in the solar wind

KT Osman, WH Matthaeus, A Greco… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Solar wind observations and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are used to probe
the nature of turbulence heating. In particular, the electron heat flux, electron temperature …