Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsh43c1963v&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SH43C-1963
Physics
Plasma Physics
[2149] Interplanetary Physics / Mhd Waves And Turbulence, [2159] Interplanetary Physics / Plasma Waves And Turbulence, [2164] Interplanetary Physics / Solar Wind Plasma, [7863] Space Plasma Physics / Turbulence
Scientific paper
Numerical hybrid simulations with particle protons and fluid electrons are presented for turbulent fluctuations with spatial variations in a plane perpendicular to the background magnetic field. The steepened portion of the proton bulk velocity spectrum is found at smaller wavenumbers for larger background proton temperature. The velocity spectrum is determined, in part, by the proton pressure tensor. The proton pressure tensor is shown to possess non-gyrotropic and finite off-diagonal components in the places where the turbulent fluctuations have developed strong gradients. Proton demagnetization at these places is a factor in the departure from a Maxwellian velocity distribution function. How demagnetization could connect with both reversible and effectively irreversible aspects of the pressure tensor is considered. The effectively irreversible aspect corresponds to the net heating of the protons and to the dissipation of the turbulent energy cascade.
Markovskii S.
Vasquez Bernard J.
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