Kinetic dissipation and anisotropic heating in a turbulent collisionless plasma

Details Kinetic dissipation and anisotropic heating in a turbulent collisionless plasma Kinetic dissipation and anisotropic heating in a turbulent collisionless plasma

2007-12-30

arxiv.org/abs/0801.0107v2

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Plasma Physics

4 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to PRL

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The kinetic evolution of the Orszag-Tang vortex is studied using collisionless hybrid simulations. In the magnetohydrodynamic regime this vortex leads rapidly to broadband turbulence. Significant differences from MHD arise at small scales, where the fluid scale energy dissipates into heat almost exclusively through the magnetic field because the protons are decoupled from the magnetic field. Although cyclotron resonance is absent, the protons heat preferentially in the plane perpendicular to the mean field, as in the corona and solar wind. Effective transport coefficients are calculated.

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