4 papers
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…
A novel scheme for measuring the growth of Alfven wave parametric decay instability using counter-propagating waves
Feiyu Li, Seth Dorfman, Xiangrong Fu
The parametric decay instability (PDI) of Alfven waves -- where a pump Alfven wave decays into a backward-propagating child Alfven wave and a forward ion acoustic wave -- is a fund…
The CHIMERAS Project: Design Framework for the Collisionless HIgh-beta Magnetized Experiment Researching Astrophysical Systems
S. Dorfman, S. Bose, E. Lichko +11
From the near-Earth solar wind to the intracluster medium of galaxy clusters, collisionless, high-beta, magnetized plasmas pervade our universe. Energy and momentum transport from…
Residual Energy and Broken Symmetry in Reduced Magnetohydrodynamics
S. Dorfman, M. Abler, S. Boldyrev +2
Alfvénic interactions which transfer energy from large to small spatial scales lie at the heart of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. An important feature of the turbulence is the ge…