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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series > Gyrokinetic simulations of solar wind turbulence and its dissipation: the importance of nonlocal effects on the energy cascade
Gyrokinetic simulations of solar wind turbulence and its dissipation: the importance of nonlocal effects on the energy cascadeAdd to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Mustapha Amrani. Gyrokinetics in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas We describe our gyrokinetic modeling efforts in support of planned basic turbulence experiments on the LAPD at UCLA . The focal point of this investigation is the fundamental building block of Alfvenic turbulence, the nonlinear interaction between two counter-propagating Alfven waves. Although the frequencies of Alfvenic fluctuations under typical LAPD operating parameters are often a substantial fraction (sometimes half or more) of the ion cyclotron frequency, our initial investigation has demonstrated that corrections to the predictions of the plasma behavior using gyrokinetics due to cyclotron effects are typically less than 10%. The intermediate collisionality of the LAPD plasma yields a much greater effect on the plasma dynamics and dissipation, yet a newly developed collision operator that has been implemented in the Astrophysical Gyrokinetics code AstroGK recovers the correct behavior in this challenging limit. I will describe current efforts underway to model the amplitude dependence of the nonlinear energy transfer rate; these results will help guide the design of the experiments to be performed in the laboratory. This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series. This talk is included in these lists:
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