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 …

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 …

Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in Au+Au collisions at –62.4 GeV

L Adamczyk, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev… - Physical Review C …, 2013 - APS
Measurements of the elliptic flow, v 2, of identified hadrons (π±, K±, K s 0, p, p¯, ϕ, Λ, Λ¯, Ξ−,
Ξ¯+, Ω−, Ω¯+) in Au+ Au collisions at s NN= 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV are …

[HTML][HTML] Energy transfer, pressure tensor, and heating of kinetic plasma

Y Yang, WH Matthaeus, TN Parashar… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Kinetic plasma turbulence cascade spans multiple scales ranging from macroscopic fluid
flow to sub-electron scales. Mechanisms that dissipate large scale energy, terminate the …

Sub-alfvénic solar wind observed by the parker solar probe: Characterization of turbulence, anisotropy, intermittency, and switchback

R Bandyopadhyay, WH Matthaeus… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In the lower solar coronal regions where the magnetic field is dominant, the Alfvén speed is
much higher than the wind speed. In contrast, the near-Earth solar wind is strongly super …

Discontinuous Galerkin algorithms for fully kinetic plasmas

J Juno, A Hakim, J TenBarge, E Shi… - Journal of Computational …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a new algorithm for the discretization of the non-relativistic Vlasov–Maxwell
system of equations for the study of plasmas in the kinetic regime. Using the discontinuous …

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 …

Pathways to dissipation in weakly collisional plasmas

WH Matthaeus, Y Yang, M Wan… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Observed turbulence in space and astrophysics is expected to involve cascade and
subsequent dissipation and heating. Contrary to standard collisional fluid turbulence, the …

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 …

Magnetic reconnection and intermittent turbulence in the solar wind

KT Osman, WH Matthaeus, JT Gosling, A Greco… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
A statistical relationship between magnetic reconnection, current sheets, and intermittent
turbulence in the solar wind is reported for the first time using in situ measurements from the …