2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Nonlinear development of whistler turbulence and energy transfer mechanism to plasma particles
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21740353
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Space and upper atmospheric physics
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| Research Institution | National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (2010-2011)
Nagoya University (2009) |
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Principal Investigator |
SAITO Shinji 独立行政法人情報通信研究機構, 電磁波計測研究所・宇宙環境インフォマティクス研究室, 専攻研究員 (60528165)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 太陽風プラズマ / プラズマ乱流 / ホイッスラー乱流 / 粒子シミュレーション |
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| Research Abstract |
We have investigated nonlinear development of whistler turbulence and its energy conversion mechanism into electron kinetic energy, using plasma particle-in-cell simulations including kinetic effects. Especially, we focus on plasma beta dependence of the whistler turbulence, and found that the plasma beta has an important role to change characteristics of electron heating and wavenumber spectrum of whistler turbulence.
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