Kinetic Instabilities

Detailed description

Numerical simulations of kinetic instabilities driven by non Maxwellian distribution functions.

Projects

List of simulations

 
EOF2
Oblique Resonant Electron Fire Hose Driven by the Electron Parallel Temperature Anisotropy (Hellinger et al. 2014).

Available products: B, Bx, By, Bz, Electron density, Proton density, Ue, Up, Uxe, Uxp, Uye, Uyp, Uze, Uzp

Coordinates

X axis parallel to the ambient magnetic field.

Initial conditions

Initialization with a homogeneous plasma with beta_e=2 and Tper_e/Tpar_e=0.216

Parameters

Grid: Nx=2048x1024, Time step: dt=0.025/Omega_e. Cell size: dx=dy=Lamda_e

Simulation presets

    (no presets available for this simulation)

Products in simulation

  • B - Magnitude of the magnetic field
  • Bx - X component of the magnetic field
  • By - Y component of the magnetic field
  • Bz - Z component of the magnetic field
  • Electron density - Electron number density
  • Proton density - Proton number density
  • Ue - Magnitude of the electron bulk velocity
  • Up - Magnitude of the electron bulk velocity
  • Uxe - X component of the electron bulk velocity
  • Uxp - X component of the proton bulk velocity
  • Uye - Y component of the electron bulk velocity
  • Uyp - Y component of the proton bulk velocity
  • Uze - Z component of the electron bulk velocity
  • Uzp - Z component of the proton bulk velocity
 
 
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