HIGH-RESOLUTION HYBRID SIMULATIONS OF KINETIC PLASMA TURBULENCE AT PROTON SCALES
HIGH-RESOLUTION HYBRID SIMULATIONS OF KINETIC PLASMA TURBULENCE AT PROTON SCALES
We investigate properties of plasma turbulence from magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) to sub-ion scales by means of two-dimensional, high-resolution hybrid particle-in-cell simulations. We impose an initial ambient magnetic field, perpendicular to the simulation box, and we add a spectrum of large-scale magnetic and kinetic fluctuations, with energy equipartition and vanishing correlation. Once …