| Description: | [DPS Seminar (Skype)] Dr. Tulasi Nandan Parashar (University of Delaware, Newark) -- Kinetic Physics of Turbulent Collisionless Astrophysical Plasmas |
| Date: | Thursday, Oct 06, 2016 |
| Time: | 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. |
| Venue: | 108, Lecture Hall Complex |
| Details: | Plasmas are ubiquitous in nature. Many astrophysical plasmas (e.g. Solar wind, galactic cooling flows, some black hole accretion disks and planetary magnetospheres) are observed or believed to be almost collisionless as well as in a turbulent state. Under such conditions, conventional fluid theories of plasma turbulence and dissipation become questionable. We provide a general overview of the field and discuss some of the recent results related to dissipation in collisionless plasmas, transition of turbulence from fluid to kinetic regimes as well as some astrophysical applications. |
| Calendar: | Seminar Calendar (entered by anandamohan) |