4 papers
Particle-In-Cell simulation of whistler heat flux instabilities in the solar wind: heat flux regulation and electron halo formation
A. Micera, A. N. Zhukov, R. A. López +4
We present results of two-dimensional fully kinetic Particle-In-Cell simulation in order to shed light on the role of whistler waves in the scattering of strahl electrons and in th…
Particle-in-cell simulations of the whistler heat-flux instability in the solar wind conditions
R. A. López, S. M. Shaaban, M. Lazar +4
In collision-poor plasmas from space, e.g., solar wind or stellar outflows, the heat-flux carried by the strahl or beaming electrons is expected to be regulated by the self-generat…
Particle-In-Cell simulations of the parallel proton firehose instability influenced by the electron temperature anisotropy in solar wind conditions
A. Micera, E. Boella, A. N. Zhukov +4
In situ observations of the solar wind show a limited level of particle temperature anisotropy with respect to the interplanetary magnetic field direction. Kinetic electromagnetic…
ECsim-CYL: Energy Conserving Semi-Implicit particle in cell simulation in axially symmetric cylindrical coordinates
Diego Gonzalez-Herrero, Alfredo Micera, Elisabetta Boella +2
Based on the previously developed Energy Conserving Semi Implicit Method (ECsim) code, we present its cylindrical implementation, called ECsim-CYL, to be used for axially symmetric…