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 …

Magnetohydrodynamic and kinetic scale turbulence in the near-Earth space plasmas: a (short) biased review

F Sahraoui, L Hadid, S Huang - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2020 - Springer
The near-Earth space is a unique laboratory to explore turbulence and energy dissipation
processes in magnetized plasmas thanks to the availability of high-quality data from various …

Quantifying energy conversion in higher-order phase space density moments in plasmas

PA Cassak, MH Barbhuiya, H Liang, MR Argall - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Weakly collisional and collisionless plasmas are typically far from local thermodynamic
equilibrium (LTE), and understanding energy conversion in such systems is a forefront …

[HTML][HTML] Turbulence-driven magnetic reconnection and the magnetic correlation length: Observations from Magnetospheric Multiscale in Earth's magnetosheath

JE Stawarz, JP Eastwood, TD Phan, IL Gingell… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Turbulent plasmas generate a multitude of thin current structures that can be sites for
magnetic reconnection. The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has recently …

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 …

Heating of magnetically dominated plasma by Alfvén-wave turbulence

J Nättilä, AM Beloborodov - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Magnetic energy around astrophysical compact objects can strongly dominate over plasma
rest mass. Emission observed from these systems may be fed by dissipation of Alfvén wave …

Identification of coupled landau and anomalous resonances in space plasmas

JH Li, XZ Zhou, ZY Liu, S Wang, AV Artemyev… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Wave-particle resonance, a ubiquitous process in the plasma universe, occurs when
resonant particles observe a constant wave phase to enable sustained energy transfer …

Dissipation measures in weakly collisional plasmas

O Pezzi, H Liang, JL Juno, PA Cassak… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The physical foundations of the dissipation of energy and the associated heating in weakly
collisional plasmas are poorly understood. Here, we compare and contrast several …

Structures in the terms of the Vlasov equation observed at Earth's magnetopause

JR Shuster, DJ Gershman, JC Dorelli, BL Giles… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The Vlasov equation describes collisionless plasmas in the continuum limit and applies to
many fundamental plasma energization phenomena. Because this equation governs the …

The importance of electron Landau dam** for the dissipation of turbulent energy in terrestrial magnetosheath plasma

AS Afshari, GG Howes, CA Kletzing… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Heliospheric plasma turbulence plays a key role in transferring the energy of large‐scale
magnetic field and plasma flow fluctuations to smaller scales where the energy can be …