Intermittency, coherent structures and dissipation in plasma turbulence

• Published in: Physics of plasmas Vol. 23; no. 4
• Main Authors: Wan, M., Matthaeus, W. H., Roytershteyn, V., Parashar, T. N., Wu, P., Karimabadi, H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melville American Institute of Physics 01.04.2016
• Subjects: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; APPROXIMATIONS; Balances (scales); Coherence; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer simulation; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; Fluid flow; FLUIDS; Intermittency; Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; Particle in cell technique; PARTICLES; PLASMA; Plasma physics; Plasma turbulence; Plasmas (physics); RESOLUTION; Simulation; SOLAR CORONA; SOLAR WIND; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS

Collisionless dissipation in turbulent plasmas such as the solar wind and the solar corona has been an intensively studied subject recently, with new insights often emerging from numerical simulation. Here we report results from high resolution, fully kinetic simulations of plasma turbulence in both...