The multi-scale nature of the solar wind

D Verscharen, KG Klein, BA Maruca - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2019 - Springer
The solar wind is a magnetized plasma and as such exhibits collective plasma behavior
associated with its characteristic spatial and temporal scales. The characteristic length …

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport

X Garbet, Y Idomura, L Villard, TH Watanabe - Nuclear Fusion, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This overview is an assessment of the gyrokinetic framework and simulations to compute
turbulent transport in fusion plasmas. It covers an introduction to the gyrokinetic theory, the …

Astrophysical gyrokinetics: kinetic and fluid turbulent cascades in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas

AA Schekochihin, SC Cowley, W Dorland… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a theoretical framework for understanding plasma turbulence in
astrophysical plasmas. It is motivated by observations of electromagnetic and density …

[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 …

[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 …

Dependence of solar-wind power spectra on the direction of the local mean magnetic field

JJ Podesta - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Wavelet analysis can be used to measure the power spectrum of solar-wind fluctuations
along a line in any direction (θ, ϕ) with respect to the local mean magnetic field B 0. This …

Multiscale gyrokinetics for rotating tokamak plasmas: fluctuations, transport and energy flows

IG Abel, GG Plunk, E Wang, M Barnes… - Reports on Progress …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a complete theoretical framework for studying turbulence and transport
in rapidly rotating tokamak plasmas. The fundamental scale separations present in plasma …

Linearized model Fokker–Planck collision operators for gyrokinetic simulations. I. Theory

IG Abel, M Barnes, SC Cowley, W Dorland… - Physics of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
A new analytically and numerically manageable model collision operator is developed
specifically for turbulence simulations. The like-particle collision operator includes both pitch …

The gyrokinetic description of microturbulence in magnetized plasmas

JA Krommes - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Nonlinear gyrokinetics is the major formalism used for both the analytical and numerical
descriptions of low-frequency microturbulence in magnetized plasmas. Its derivation from …