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Dissipation measures in weakly-collisional plasmas
O. Pezzi, H. Liang, J. L. Juno +8
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 measures…
Kinetic Entropy-Based Measures of Distribution Function Non-Maxwellianity: Theory and Simulations
Haoming Liang, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, P. A. Cassak +4
We investigate kinetic entropy-based measures of the non-Maxwellianity of distribution functions in plasmas, i.e., entropy-based measures of the departure of a local distribution f…
Kinetic Alfvén wave generation by velocity shear in collisionless plasmas
Teresa Maiorano, Adriana Settino, Francesco Malara +3
The evolution of a linearly-polarized, long-wavelength Alfvén wave --propagating in a collisionless magnetized plasma with a sheared parallel-directed velocity flow-- is here studi…
ViDA: a Vlasov-DArwin solver for plasma physics at electron scales
Oreste Pezzi, Giulia Cozzani, Francesco Califano +6
We present a Vlasov-DArwin numerical code (ViDA) specifically designed to address plasma physics problems, where small-scale high accuracy is requested even during the non linear r…
Energy conversion in turbulent weakly-collisional plasmas: Eulerian Hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell simulations
O. Pezzi, Y. Yang, F. Valentini +4
Kinetic simulations based on the Eulerian Hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell (HVM) formalism permit the examination of plasma turbulence with useful resolution of the proton velocity distributi…
Proton-proton collisions in the turbulent solar wind: Hybrid Boltzmann-Maxwell simulations
O. Pezzi, D. Perrone, S. Servidio +3
The mechanism of heating for hot, dilute, and turbulent plasmas represents a long-standing problem in space physics, whose implications concern both near-Earth environments and ast…