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 …

Solar wind turbulence and the role of ion instabilities

O Alexandrova, CHK Chen, L Sorriso-Valvo… - Space Science …, 2013 - Springer
Solar wind is probably the best laboratory to study turbulence in astrophysical plasmas. In
addition to the presence of magnetic field, the differences with neutral fluid isotropic …

Observation of inertial energy cascade in interplanetary space plasma

L Sorriso-Valvo, R Marino, V Carbone, A Noullez… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
Direct evidence for the presence of an inertial energy cascade, the most characteristic
signature of hydromagnetic turbulence (MHD), is observed in the solar wind by the Ulysses …

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 …

Turbulence-driven ion beams in the magnetospheric Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

L Sorriso-Valvo, F Catapano, A Retinò, O Le Contel… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
The description of the local turbulent energy transfer and the high-resolution ion distributions
measured by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission together provide a formidable tool to …

von Kármán–Howarth equation for Hall magnetohydrodynamics: hybrid simulations

P Hellinger, A Verdini, S Landi, L Franci… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A dynamical vectorial equation for homogeneous incompressible Hall-
magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence together with the exact scaling law for third-order …

Heating the solar wind by a magnetohydrodynamic turbulent energy cascade

R Marino, L Sorriso-Valvo, V Carbone… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Solar wind plasma is known to cool down more slowly while it is blown away from the Sun
than expected from an adiabatic spherical expansion. Some source of heating is thus …

In Situ Observation of Hall Magnetohydrodynamic Cascade in Space Plasma

R Bandyopadhyay, L Sorriso-Valvo, A Chasapis… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We present estimates of the turbulent energy-cascade rate derived from a Hall-
magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) third-order law. We compute the contribution from the Hall …

Scale dependence of energy transfer in turbulent plasma

Y Yang, M Wan, WH Matthaeus… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In the context of space and astrophysical plasma turbulence and particle heating, several
vocabularies emerge for estimating turbulent energy dissipation rate, including Kolmogorov …

On the statistical properties of turbulent energy transfer rate in the inner heliosphere

L Sorriso-Valvo, F Carbone, S Perri, A Greco, R Marino… - Solar Physics, 2018 - Springer
The transfer of energy from large to small scales in solar wind turbulence is an important
ingredient of the long-standing question of the mechanism of the interplanetary plasma …