Recent progress in astrophysical plasma turbulence from solar wind observations

CHK Chen - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2016 - cambridge.org
This paper summarises some of the recent progress that has been made in understanding
astrophysical plasma turbulence in the solar wind, from in situ spacecraft observations. At …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Anisotropy in solar wind plasma turbulence

S Oughton, WH Matthaeus… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A review of spectral anisotropy and variance anisotropy for solar wind fluctuations is given,
with the discussion covering inertial range and dissipation range scales. For the inertial …

Critical balance and the physics of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

S Oughton, WH Matthaeus - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A discussion of the advantages and limitations of the concept of critical balance (CB), as
employed in turbulence phenomenologies, is presented. The incompressible …

Enhanced magnetic compressibility and isotropic scale invariance at sub-ion Larmor scales in solar wind turbulence

KH Kiyani, SC Chapman, F Sahraoui… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The anisotropic nature of solar wind magnetic turbulence fluctuations is investigated scale
by scale using high cadence in situ magnetic field measurements from the Cluster and ACE …

Three-dimensional structure of solar wind turbulence

CHK Chen, A Mallet, AA Schekochihin… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a measurement of the scale-dependent, three-dimensional structure of the
magnetic field fluctuations in inertial range solar wind turbulence with respect to a local …

Influence of the solar cycle on turbulence properties and cosmic-ray diffusion

LL Zhao, L Adhikari, GP Zank, Q Hu… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The solar cycle dependence of various turbulence quantities and cosmic-ray (CR) diffusion
coefficients is investigated by using OMNI 1 minute resolution data over 22 years. We …