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 eddi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.012006 |