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Quantifying Energy Conversion in Higher Order Phase Space Density Moments in Plasmas
Paul A. Cassak, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Haoming Liang +1
Weakly collisional and collisionless plasmas are typically far from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE), and understanding energy conversion in such systems is a forefront resear…
Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection Spreading in Current Sheets of Non-Uniform Thickness
Milton Arencibia, P. A. Cassak, M. A. Shay +3
Magnetic reconnection in naturally occurring and laboratory settings often begins locally and elongates, or spreads, in the direction perpendicular to the plane of reconnection. Pr…
Scaling of electron heating by magnetization during reconnection and applications to dipolarization fronts and super-hot solar flares
M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Paul. A. Cassak, Michael. A. Shay +5
Electron ring velocity space distributions have previously been seen in numerical simulations of magnetic reconnection exhausts and have been suggested to be caused by the magnetiz…
Observation of Magnetic Switchback in the Solar Corona
Daniele Telloni, Gary P. Zank, Marco Stangalini +49
Switchbacks are sudden, large radial deflections of the solar wind magnetic field, widely revealed in interplanetary space by the Parker Solar Probe. The switchbacks' formation mec…
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…
Decomposition of Plasma Kinetic Entropy into Position and Velocity Space and the Use of Kinetic Entropy in Particle-in-Cell Simulations
Haoming Liang, Paul A. Cassak, Sergio Servidio +9
We describe a systematic development of kinetic entropy as a diagnostic in fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations and use it to interpret plasma physics processes in heli…