Role of reconnection in inertial kinetic-Alfvén turbulence

In a weakly collisional, low-electron-beta plasma, large-scale Alfvén turbulence transforms into inertial kinetic-Alfvén turbulence at scales smaller than the ion microscale (gyroscale or inertial scale). We propose that at such kinetic scales, the nonlinear dynamics tends to organize turbulent ed...

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Main Authors: Boldyrev, Stanislav (Author), Gomes Loureiro, Nuno F (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society (APS), 2020-03-24T19:23:13Z.
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