Shock Turbulence Interaction with Plasma Viscosity

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Abstract

Plasma viscosity is a strong function of the background temperature. In strong shocks, the temperature of the plasma can increase immensely. We investigate how turbulence in a plasma may be dissipated under consideration of these combined effects, as was previously found for the case of a turbulent plasma undergoing metric compression \footnote{S. Davidovits \& N. J. Fisch, \textbf{Phy. Rev. Lett.} 116, 2016}. When the net increase of viscosity is not strong, nonunique outcomes of final turbulent energy under multiple shocks are also considered.

*This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. This work was also supported by U.S. DOE DE-AC02- 09CH1146.

Authors

  • Michael Zhang

    • Princeton University

  • Seth Davidovits

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • C. R. Weber

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Nathaniel Fisch

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
    • PPPL
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory