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Computational plasma physics presents unique
? ?challenges due to the extreme scales and diverse physical
phenomena ? ?involved in various astrophysical and laboratory
plasmas. To study ? ?plasmas in different regimes (i.e., fluid vs.
kinetic) at various ? ?scales, a range of numerical models with
different physics ? ?capabilities, such as magnetohydrodynamic
(MHD), multi-moment, ? ?hybrid, particle-in-cell, and VlasovMaxwell
codes, have been developed.
Starting with the MHD model, I will delineate the ? ?world’s largest
turbulence simulation (with unprecedentedly large ? ?magnetic
Reynolds number) to reveal how rapid reconnection of ? ?magnetic
field lines changes the classical paradigm of the turbulent ? ?energy
cascade. Additionally, I will present two massive simulations ?
?examining Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) driven turbulent dynamo
? ?and laserproduced turbulence in the MHD regimes. Before ?
?transitioning to fully kinetic models, I will introduce a novel ?
?kinetic fluid model that can be used to address collisionless ?
?magnetic reconnection. Leveraging modern machine learning ?
?techniques, the accuracy of this model has been significantly ?
?improved by integrating kinetic physics from Vlasov-Maxwell ?
?simulations. Furthermore, I will briefly show a few examples using ?
?fully kinetic particle-in-cell codes. ?
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