Structure of Plasma Heating in Gyrokinetic Alfvénic Turbulence

Navarro, Alejandro Bañón; Teaca, Bogdan; Told, Daniel; Groselj, Daniel; Crandall, Paul; Jenko, Frank

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.245101

Title: Structure of Plasma Heating in Gyrokinetic Alfvénic Turbulence

Journal Article · Wed Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.245101· OSTI ID:1544417

Navarro, Alejandro Bañón ^[1]; Teaca, Bogdan ^[2]; Told, Daniel ^[1]; Groselj, Daniel ^[3]; Crandall, Paul ^[1]; Jenko, Frank ^[1]

Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Coventry Univ. (United Kingdom)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Max-Planck-Inst. für Plasmaphysik, Garching (Germany)

Here, we analyze plasma heating in weakly collisional kinetic Alfvén wave turbulence using high resolution gyrokinetic simulations spanning the range of scales between the ion and the electron gyroradii. Real space structures that have a higher than average heating rate are shown not to be confined to current sheets. This novel result is at odds with previous studies, which use the electromagnetic work in the local electron fluid frame, i.e., J∙(E+v_e×B), as a proxy for turbulent dissipation to argue that heating follows the intermittent spatial structure of the electric current. Furthermore, we show that electrons are dominated by parallel heating while the ions prefer the perpendicular heating route. We comment on the implications of the results presented here.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1544417

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1334686

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 24; ISSN 0031-9007

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