Shear flows are ubiquitously present in space and astrophysical plasmas. This paper
highlights the central idea of the non-thermal acceleration of charged particles in shearing …

Particle energization in shear flows is invoked to explain nonthermal emission from the
boundaries of relativistic astrophysical jets. Yet the physics of particle injection, ie, the …

We study within a fully kinetic framework the generation of “seed” magnetic fields through
the Weibel instability, driven in an initially unmagnetized plasma by a large-scale shear …

A new computational framework for a coupled PIC-DSMC tool using multiple GPUs to model
the kinetic behavior of electrons in plasma plumes is presented in this work. The disparate …

The origin of the extended X-ray emission in the large-scale jets of active galactic nuclei
(AGNs) poses challenges to conventional models of acceleration and emission. Although …

Hot accretion flows contain collisionless plasmas that are believed to be capable of
accelerating particles to very high energies, as a result of turbulence generated by the …

EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL RELATIVISTIC JETS: COLLIMATIONS AND EXPANSION WITH
kKHI AND THE WEIBEL INSTABILITY - IOPscience Skip to content IOP Science home …

In collisional fluids, a number of key processes rely on the frequency of binary collisions.
Collisions seem necessary to generate a shock wave when two fluids collide fast enough, to …

We investigate the conditions for the emergence of wave instabilities in a vacuum cavity
delimited by cylindrical metallic walls under rotation. It is shown that for a small vacuum gap …

An electromagnetic (EM) pulse falling on a plasma medium from vacuum can either reflect,
get absorbed or propagate inside the plasma depending on whether it is overdense or …