Scaling laws for the energy transfer in space plasma turbulence

R Marino, L Sorriso-Valvo - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
One characteristic trait of space plasmas is the multi-scale dynamics resulting from non-
linear transfers and conversions of various forms of energy. Routinely evidenced in a range …

Pressure–strain interaction as the energy dissipation estimate in collisionless plasma

Y Yang, WH Matthaeus, S Roy… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The dissipative mechanism in weakly collisional plasma is a topic that pervades decades of
studies without a consensus solution. We compare several energy dissipation estimates …

Three-dimensional modelling of the shock–turbulence interaction

D Trotta, O Pezzi, D Burgess, L Preisser… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The complex interaction between shocks and plasma turbulence is extremely important to
address crucial features of energy conversion in a broad range of astrophysical systems. We …

Turbulent energy transfer and proton–electron heating in collisionless plasmas

S Roy, R Bandyopadhyay, Y Yang… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite decades of study of high-temperature weakly collisional plasmas, a complete
understanding of how energy is transferred between particles and fields in turbulent …

Current sheets, plasmoids and flux ropes in the heliosphere: Part ii: Theoretical aspects

O Pezzi, F Pecora, J Le Roux, NE Engelbrecht… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
Our understanding of processes occurring in the heliosphere historically began with
reduced dimensionality-one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) sketches and …

[HTML][HTML] Pressure–strain interaction. I. On compression, deformation, and implications for Pi-D

PA Cassak, MH Barbhuiya - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The pressure–strain interaction describes the rate per unit volume that energy is converted
between bulk flow and thermal energy in neutral fluids or plasmas. The term has been …

Relativistic particle transport and acceleration in structured plasma turbulence

O Pezzi, P Blasi, WH Matthaeus - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss the phenomenon of energization of relativistic charged particles in three-
dimensional incompressible MHD turbulence and the diffusive properties of the motion of …

[HTML][HTML] Energy dissipation in turbulent reconnection

R Bandyopadhyay, A Chasapis, WH Matthaeus… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We study the nature of pressure-strain interaction at reconnection sites detected by NASA's
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission. We employ data from a series of previously published …

Three-dimensional energy transfer in space plasma turbulence from multipoint measurement

F Pecora, Y Yang, WH Matthaeus, A Chasapis… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
A novel multispacecraft technique applied to Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission data in the
Earth's magnetosheath enables evaluation of the energy cascade rate from the full Yaglom's …

A parallel low-rank solver for the six-dimensional Vlasov–Maxwell equations

F Allmann-Rahn, R Grauer, K Kormann - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Continuum Vlasov simulations can be utilized for highly accurate modelling of fully kinetic
plasmas. Great progress has been made recently regarding the applicability of the method …