3 papers
physics.plasm-ph2024
The Kinetic Analogue of the Pressure-Strain Interaction
Sarah A. Conley, James Juno, Jason M. TenBarge +4
Energy transport in weakly collisional plasma systems is often studied with fluid models and diagnostics. However, the applicability of fluid models is necessarily limited when col…
astro-ph.SR2024
Electron Influence on the Parallel Proton Firehose Instability in 10-Moment, Multi-Fluid Simulations
Jada Walters, Kristopher G. Klein, Emily Lichko +2
Instabilities driven by pressure anisotropy play a critical role in modulating the energy transfer in space and astrophysical plasmas. For the first time, we simulate the evolution…
astro-ph.SR2023
The Effects of Non-Equilibrium Velocity Distributions on Alfvén Ion-Cyclotron Waves in the Solar Wind
Jada Walters, Kristopher G. Klein, Emily Lichko +3
In this work, we investigate how the complex structure found in solar wind proton velocity distribution functions (VDFs), rather than the commonly assumed two-component bi-Maxwelli…