A Method for Kinetic Simulations of Plasma Turbulence Based on Hermite Transform in the Velocity Space
Abstract
Typical space and astrophysical plasmas are weakly collisional, such that the dissipation of energy and momentum arises from microscopic collective processes operating at kinetic scales. Simulations of turbulence dynamics that faithfully describe kinetic process are thus of great interest. However, such simulations also present formidable challenges due to the presence of multiple characteristic scales in plasma and due to relatively weak magnitude of fluctuations at kinetic scales.
- Publication:
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Solar Heliospheric and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE 2018)
- Pub Date:
- July 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018shin.confE..32R