Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulation of mirror instability

Details Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulation of mirror instability Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulation of mirror instability

Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufmsm31c0572q&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SM31C-0572

Physics

2159 Plasma Waves And Turbulence, 2483 Wave/Particle Interactions (7867), 2728 Magnetosheath, 2753 Numerical Modeling, 2772 Plasma Waves And Instabilities (2471)

Scientific paper

The mirror instability is a low frequency electromagnetic mode destabilized by pressure anisotropy in high- β plasamas. The finite Larmor radius (FLR) effects play an important role in determining the threshold and the growth rate of the mirror instability. A gyrokinetic PIC simulation code has been developed for the simulation of compressible magnetic turbulence driven by the mirror instability. Results of the linear simulation of mirror mode agree well with the analytic dispersion relation. Nonlinear simulations of single mode find that the mirror instability saturates via wave-particle trapping. Nonlinear simulations of multiple modes found important effects of mode coupling.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulation of mirror instability does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulation of mirror instability, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulation of mirror instability will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1423499