6 papers
Velocity space origins of pressure-strain interaction in multi-population distributions and its application to magnetic reconnection
M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Paul A. Cassak, Sarah Conley +7
A forefront research question is how energy evolves in weakly collisional plasmas for which departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) are significant. The standard appr…
Effects of Unequal Electron-Ion Plasma Beta on Pressure-Strain Interaction in Turbulent Plasmas
M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Subash Adhikari
A common occurrence in weakly collisional space plasmas is the unequal electron-ion temperatures. The pressure-strain interaction provides a mechanism-agnostic pathway for increasi…
The Importance of Heat Flux in Quasi-Parallel Collisionless Shocks
Colby C. Haggerty, Damiano Caprioli, Paul A. Cassak +3
Collisionless plasma shocks are a common feature of many space and astrophysical systems and are sources of high-energy particles and non-thermal emission, channeling as much as 20…
Kinetic Scale Energy Budget in Turbulent Plasmas: Role of Electron to Ion Temperature Ratio
Subash Adhikari, M. Hasan Barbhuiya
The dissipation mechanisms in weakly collisional plasmas have been a longstanding topic of investigation, where significant progress has been made in recent years. A recent promisi…
Identifying the Growth Phase of Magnetic Reconnection using Pressure-Strain Interaction
M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Paul A. Cassak, Alex Chasapis +3
Magnetic reconnection often initiates abruptly and then rapidly progresses to a nonlinear quasi-steady state. While satellites frequently detect reconnection events, ascertaining w…
A Magnetic Analog of Pressure-Strain Interaction
M. Hasan Barbhuiya, P. A. Cassak
We study the evolution equation for magnetic energy density for a non-relativistic magnetized plasma in the (Lagrangian) reference frame comoving with the electron bulk velocity. A…