Energy transfer in reconnection and turbulence

Adhikari, Subash; Parashar, Tulasi N.; Shay, Michael A.; Matthaeus, William H.; Pyakurel, Prayash Sharma; Fordin, Samuel; Stawarz, Julia E.; Eastwood, Jonathan P.

doi:10.1103/physreve.104.065206

Title: Energy transfer in reconnection and turbulence

Journal Article · 20 December 2021 · Physical Review. E

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.104.065206 · OSTI ID:1982807

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Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
Victoria Univ. of Wellington (New Zealand); Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)

Reconnection and turbulence are two of the most commonly observed dynamical processes in plasmas, but their relationship is still not fully understood. Using 2.5D kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of both strong turbulence and reconnection, we compare the cross-scale transfer of energy in the two systems by analyzing the generalization of the von Kármán Howarth equations for Hall magnetohydrodynamics, a formulation that subsumes the third-order law for steady energy transfer rates. Even though the large scale features are quite different, the finding is that the decomposition of the energy transfer is structurally very similar in the two cases. In the reconnection case, the time evolution of the energy transfer also exhibits a correlation with the reconnection rate. Finally, these results provide explicit evidence that reconnection dynamics fundamentally involves turbulence-like energy transfer.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) (UKRI); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1982807

Journal Information:: Physical Review. E, Journal Name: Physical Review. E Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 104; ISSN 2470-0045

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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