Kinetic processes

Plasma heating: observations and multidimensional kinetic simulations

          • Measurements of fields and particle velocity distributions, in synergy with multidimensional kinetic simulations to identify physical processes responsible for heating and dissipation in weakly collisional systems

          • Signatures of (resonant and non-resonant) wave-particle interactions and role in the heating partition among species within different plasma regimes/conditions

          • Emphasis also on Landau Damping at electronic scales

          • Role of collisions in a turbulent medium

          • Anisotropic heating and generation of various instabilities

          • Features in the velocity distribution functions indicating velocity space turbulent cascade

          • Role of coherent structures in the kinetic-scale turbulent cascade

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