Particle-in-Cell Simulation of the Parametric Decay Instability of Alfvén Waves with Absorbing Boundary Conditions

Vijay Shankar, Feiyu Li, Seth Dorfman +1

The Alfvén wave parametric decay instability (PDI) facilitates energy transfer, plasma heating, and turbulence generation in space, astrophysical, and fusion plasmas. Most simulat…