Collaborative Research: Particle-in-Cell Simulations of the Global Stability and Relaxation of Kinetic-Scale Structures in a Collisionless Magnetized Plasma

This award supports a collaboration between the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and the University of New Hampshire to study structure formation in collisionless plasmas. Most observable matter in the universe, including the Sun and other stars, exists in the plasma state. Many of these plasmas, such as the solar wind, are referred to as…