The electron forewake: Shadowing and drift-energization as flowing magnetized plasma encounters an obstacle
Abstract
Flow of magnetized plasma past an obstacle creates a traditional wake, but also a forewake region arising from shadowing of electrons. The electron forewakes resulting from supersonic flows past insulating and floating-potential obstacles are explored with 2D electrostatic particle-in-cell simula-tions, using a physical ion to electron mass ratio. Drift-energization is discovered to give rise to modifications to the electron velocity-distribution, including a slope-reversal, providing a novel drive of forewake instability. The slope-reversal is present at certain locations in all the simula-tions, and appears to be quite robustly generated. Wings of enhanced electron density are observed in some of the simulations, also associated with drift-energization. In the simulations with a floating-potential obstacle, the specific potential structure behind that obstacle allows fast electrons to cross the wake, giving rise to a more traditional shadowing-driven two-stream instability. In conclusion, fluctuations associated with such instability are observed in the simulations, but this instability-mechanism is expected to be more sensitive to the plasma parameters than that associated with the slope-reversal.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1469378
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1223158
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010491
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 22; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
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Haakonsen, Christian Bernt, and Hutchinson, Ian H. The electron forewake: Shadowing and drift-energization as flowing magnetized plasma encounters an obstacle. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4932006.
Haakonsen, Christian Bernt, & Hutchinson, Ian H. The electron forewake: Shadowing and drift-energization as flowing magnetized plasma encounters an obstacle. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4932006
Haakonsen, Christian Bernt, and Hutchinson, Ian H. Thu .
"The electron forewake: Shadowing and drift-energization as flowing magnetized plasma encounters an obstacle". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4932006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1469378.
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title = {The electron forewake: Shadowing and drift-energization as flowing magnetized plasma encounters an obstacle},
author = {Haakonsen, Christian Bernt and Hutchinson, Ian H.},
abstractNote = {Flow of magnetized plasma past an obstacle creates a traditional wake, but also a forewake region arising from shadowing of electrons. The electron forewakes resulting from supersonic flows past insulating and floating-potential obstacles are explored with 2D electrostatic particle-in-cell simula-tions, using a physical ion to electron mass ratio. Drift-energization is discovered to give rise to modifications to the electron velocity-distribution, including a slope-reversal, providing a novel drive of forewake instability. The slope-reversal is present at certain locations in all the simula-tions, and appears to be quite robustly generated. Wings of enhanced electron density are observed in some of the simulations, also associated with drift-energization. In the simulations with a floating-potential obstacle, the specific potential structure behind that obstacle allows fast electrons to cross the wake, giving rise to a more traditional shadowing-driven two-stream instability. In conclusion, fluctuations associated with such instability are observed in the simulations, but this instability-mechanism is expected to be more sensitive to the plasma parameters than that associated with the slope-reversal.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4932006},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 10,
volume = 22,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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