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非磁化剪切流等离子体中的激波:稳定性和磁场产生

Shocks in unmagnetized plasma with a shear flow: Stability and magnetic field generation

M. E. Dieckmann, A. Bock, H. Ahmed, D. Doria, G. Sarri, A. Ynnerman, M. Borghesi

摘要:

用二维粒子模拟方法研究了无碰撞等离子体中的一对弯曲激波。这些冲击波是由两个电子-离子云碰撞产生的,碰撞的速度在任何地方都超过了冲击波形成的阈值速度。沿着最初的平面碰撞边界的碰撞速度的变化,这是可比的离子声速,产生随时间增加的冲击的曲率。激波的空间变化的马赫数导致沿激波边界方向的下游密度的变化。这种变化最终通过离子的热扩散来平衡。这对激波在几十个离子等离子体频率的倒数下是稳定的。在此期间,流入的上游等离子体的平均流速矢量与激波的静电场之间的角度稳定地增加。两个矢量的不对准引起旋转电子流,这产生在数十个电子趋肤深度上相干的磁场补丁的生长。

英文摘要:

A pair of curved shocks in a collisionless plasma is examined with a two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. The shocks are created by the collision of two electron-ion clouds at a speed that exceeds everywhere the threshold speed for shock formation. A variation of the collision speed along the initially planar collision boundary, which is comparable to the ion acoustic speed, yields a curvature of the shock that increases with time. The spatially varying Mach number of the shocks results in a variation of the downstream density in the direction along the shock boundary. This variation is eventually equilibrated by the thermal diffusion of ions. The pair of shocks is stable for tens of inverse ion plasma frequencies. The angle between the mean flow velocity vector of the inflowing upstream plasma and the shock's electrostatic field increases steadily during this time. The disalignment of both vectors gives rise to a rotational electron flow, which yields the growth of magnetic field patches that are coherent over tens of electron skin depths.

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