Alexander Schekochihin

PUBLICATION LIST
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SUBMITTED PAPERS

43. S. V. Nazarenko and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Critical balance in magnetohydrodynamic, rotating and stratified turbulence: towards a universal scaling conjecture,''
J. Fluid Mech., submitted (2009) [e-print arXiv:0904.3488]

42. G. G. Plunk, S. C. Cowley, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. Tatsuno,
``Two-dimensional gyrokinetic turbulence,''
J. Fluid Mech., submitted (2009) [e-print arXiv:0904.0243]

41. A. A. Schekochihin, T. Heinemann, N. Kleeorin, G. Lesur, A. Mallet, J. C. McWilliams, I. Rogachevskii, and T. A. Yousef, 
``Magnetic-field generation by randomly forced shearing waves,''
 MNRAS, submitted (2008) [e-print arXiv:0810.2225]

PUBLISHED/ACCEPTED PAPERS

2010

40. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, F. Rincon, and M. S. Rosin,
``Magnetofluid dynamics of magnetized cosmic plasma: firehose and gyrothermal instabilities,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., accepted (2010) [e-print arXiv:0912.1359]

39. C. H. K. Chen, R. T. Wicks, T. S. Horbury, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Interpreting power anisotropy measurements in plasma turbulence,''
Astrophys. J. Lett., accepted (2010) [e-print arXiv:0909.2683]

2009

38. C. M. Roach, I. G. Abel, R. J. Akers, W. Arter, M. Barnes, Y. Camenen, F. J. Casson, G. Colyer, J. W. Connor, S. C. Cowley, D. Dickinson, W. Dorland, A. R. Field, W. Guttenfelder, G. W. Hammett, R. J. Hastie, E. Highcock, N. F. Loureiro, A. G. Peeters, M. Reshko, S. Saarelma, A. A. Schekochihin, M. Valovic and H. R. Wilson,
``Gyrokinetic simulations of spherical tokamaks,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51, 124020 (2009)

37. N. F. Loureiro, D. A. Uzdensky, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, and T. A. Yousef,
``Turbulent magnetic reconnection in two dimensions,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 399, L146 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0904.0823]

36. A. Waelkens, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. A. Enßlin,
``Probing magnetic turbulence by synchrotron polarimetry: statistics and structure of magnetic fields from Stokes correlators,''
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 398, 1970 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0903.3056]

35. R. Samtaney, N. F. Loureiro, D. A. Uzdensky, A. A. Schekochihin, and S. C. Cowley,
``Formation of plasmoid chains in magnetic reconnection,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 105004 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0903.0542]

34. T. Tatsuno, W. Dorland, A. A. Schekochihin, G. G. Plunk, M. Barnes, S. C. Cowley, and G. G. Howes,
``Nonlinear phase mixing and phase-space cascade of entropy in gyrokinetic plasma turbulence,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 015003 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0811.2538]

33. M. Barnes, I. G. Abel, W. Dorland, D. R. Ernst, G. W. Hammett, P. Ricci, B. N. Rogers, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. Tatsuno,
``Linearized model Fokker-Planck collision operators for gyrokinetic simulations. II. Numerical implementation and tests,''
Phys. Plasmas 16, 072107 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0809.3945]

32. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, G. G. Howes, E. Quataert, and T. Tatsuno,
``Astrophysical gyrokinetics: kinetic and fluid turbulent cascades in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas,''
Astrophys. J. Suppl. 182, 310 (2009) [e-print arXiv:0704.0044]

2008

31. I. G. Abel, M. Barnes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Linearized model Fokker-Planck collision operators for gyrokinetic simulations. I. Theory,''
Phys. Plasmas 15, 122509 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0808.1300]

30. T. A. Yousef, T. Heinemann, F. Rincon, A. A. Schekochihin, N. Kleeorin, I. Rogachevskii, S. C. Cowley, and J. C. McWilliams,
``Numerical experiments on dynamo action in sheared and rotating turbulence,''
Astron. Nachr. 329, 737 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0807.1122]

29. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, G. G. Howes, G. G. Plunk, E. Quataert, and T. Tatsuno,
``Gyrokinetic turbulence: a nonlinear route to dissipation through phase space,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 50, 124024 (2008) [invited talk for the 35th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics; e-print arXiv:0806.1069]

28. G. G. Howes, W. Dorland,  S. C. Cowley, G. W. Hammett, E. Quataert, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. Tatsuno,
``Kinetic simulations of magnetized turbulence in astrophysical plasmas,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 065004 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0711.4355]
Reply to a Comment on this paper: Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 149502 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0812.2493]

27. T. A. Yousef, T. Heinemann, A. A. Schekochihin, N. Kleeorin, I. Rogachevskii, A. B. Iskakov, S. C. Cowley, and J. C. McWilliams,
``Generation of magnetic field by combined action of turbulence and shear,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 184501 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0710.3359]

26. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, R. M. Kulsrud, M. S. Rosin, and T. Heinemann,
``Nonlinear growth of firehose and mirror fluctuations in astrophysical plasmas,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 081301 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0709.3828]

25. G. G. Howes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, E. Quataert, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``A model of turbulence in magnetized plasmas: implications for the dissipation range in the solar wind,''
J. Geophys. Res. 113, A05103 (2008) [e-print arXiv:0707.3147 --- the e-print does not have the random idiotic typos introduced by the publisher]

2007

24. N. F. Loureiro, A. A. Schekochihin, and S. C. Cowley,
``Instability of current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains,''
Phys. Plasmas 14, 100703 (2007) [e-print astro-ph/0703631]

23. A. A. Schekochihin, A. B. Iskakov, S. C. Cowley, J. C. McWilliams, M. R. E. Proctor, and T. A. Yousef,
``Fluctuation dynamo and turbulent induction at low magnetic Prandtl numbers,''
New J. Phys. 9, 300 (2007) [invited article for the Focus Issue on Magnetohydrodynamics and the Dynamo Problem; e-print arXiv:0704.2002]

22. A. B. Iskakov, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, J. C. McWilliams, and M. R. E. Proctor,
``Numerical demonstration of fluctuation dynamo at low magnetic Prandtl numbers,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 208510 (2007) [e-print astro-ph/0702291]

21. T. A. Yousef, F. Rincon, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Exact scaling laws and the local structure of isotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence,''
J. Fluid Mech. 575, 111 (2007) [e-print astro-ph/0611692]

20. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, and W. Dorland,
``Interplanetary and interstellar plasma turbulence,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 49, A195 (2007) [invited talk for the 13th Int'l Congress on Plasma Physics; e-print astro-ph/0610810]

2006

19. G. G. Howes, S. C. Cowley, W. D. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, E. Quataert, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Astrophysical gyrokinetics: basic equations and linear theory,''
Astrophys. J. 651, 590 (2006) [e-print astro-ph/0511812]

18. A. A. Schekochihin and S. C. Cowley,
``Turbulence, magnetic fields and plasma physics in clusters of galaxies,''
Phys. Plasmas 13, 056501 (2006) [invited talk for the 47th APS DPP Meeting; e-print astro-ph/0601246]

17. T. A. Enßlin, A. Waelkens, C. Vogt, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Future magnetic fields studies using the Planck surveyor experiment,''
Astron. Nachr. 327, 626 (2006) [e-print astro-ph/0511488]

16. A. A. Schekochihin and S. C. Cowley,
``Fast growth of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters: a self-accelerating dynamo,''
Astron. Nachr. 327, 599 (2006) [e-print astro-ph/0508535]

2005

15. N. F. Loureiro, S. C. Cowley, W. D. Dorland, M. G. Haines, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``X-point collapse and saturation in the tearing-mode reconnection,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235003 (2005) [e-print physics/0507206]

14. C. M. Roach, D. J. Applegate, J. W. Connor, S. C. Cowley, W. D. Dorland, R. J. Hastie, N. Joiner, S. Saarelma, A. A. Schekochihin,  R. J. Akers, C. Brickley, A. R. Field, M. Valovic, and the MAST Team, 
``Microstability physics as illuminated in the spherical tokamak,''
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 47, B323 (2005)

13. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, R. M. Kulsrud, G. W. Hammett, and P. Sharma,
``Plasma instabilities and magnetic-field growth in clusters of galaxies,''
Astrophys. J. 629, 139 (2005) [e-print astro-ph/0501362]

12. A. A. Schekochihin, N. E. L. Haugen, A. Brandenburg, S. C. Cowley,  J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams,
``The onset of a small-scale turbulent dynamo at low magnetic Prandtl numbers,''
Astrophys. J. 625, L115 (2005) [e-print astro-ph/0412594]

2004

11. A. A. Schekochihin, P. H. Haynes, and  S. C. Cowley,
``Diffusion of passive scalar in a finite-scale random flow,''
Phys. Rev. E 70, 046304 (2004) [e-print nlin.CD/0404016]

10. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, S. F. Taylor, J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams,
``Simulations of the small-scale turbulent dynamo,''
Astrophys. J. 612, 276 (2004) [e-print astro-ph/0312046]

9. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams,
``Critical magnetic Prandtl number for small-scale dynamo,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 054502 (2004)  [e-print astro-ph/0308336]

8. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, S. F. Taylor, G. W. Hammett, J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams,
``Saturated state of the nonlinear small-scale dynamo,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 084504 (2004)  [e-print astro-ph/0308252]

7. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams,
``Self-similar turbulent dynamo,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 064501 (2004)  [e-print nlin.CD/0306059]

2002

6. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, G. W. Hammett, J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams,
``A model of nonlinear evolution and saturation of the turbulent MHD dynamo,''
New J. Phys. 4, 84 (2002) [invited article for the Focus Issue on Turbulence in Magnetized Plasmas; e-print astro-ph/0207503]

5. A. A. Schekochihin, J. L. Maron, S. C. Cowley, and J. C. McWilliams,
``The small-scale structure of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with large magnetic Prandtl numbers,''
Astrophys. J. 576, 806 (2002)  [e-print astro-ph/0203219]

4. A. Schekochihin, S. Cowley, J. Maron, and L. Malyshkin,
``Structure of small-scale magnetic fields in the kinematic dynamo theory,''
Phys. Rev. E 65, 016305 (2002) [e-print astro-ph/0105322]

3. A. A. Schekochihin, S. A. Boldyrev, and R. M. Kulsrud,
``Spectra and growth rates of fluctuating magnetic fields in the kinematic dynamo theory with large magnetic Prandtl numbers,''
Astrophys. J. 567, 828 (2002) [e-print astro-ph/0103333]

2001

2. A. A. Schekochihin and R. M. Kulsrud,
``Finite-correlation-time effects in the kinematic dynamo problem,''
Phys. Plasmas 8, 4937 (2001)  [e-print astro-ph/0002175]

2000

1. S. A. Boldyrev and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Geometric properties of passive random advection,''
Phys. Rev. E 62, 545 (2000) [e-print chao-dyn/9907034]

BOOK CHAPTER

A. A. Schekochihin and S. C. Cowley,
``Turbulence and magnetic fields in astrophysical plasmas,'' (pdf, 1.6 Mb --- version with better figures)
in: Magnetohydrodynamics: Historical Evolution and Trends, S. Molokov, R. Moreau, and H. K. Moffatt, Eds.
(Berlin: Springer, 2007), 85 [e-print astro-ph/0507686]

BOOK REVIEW

Plasma Physics for Astrophysics, by R. M. Kulsrud (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)
J. Fluid Mech. 544, 378 (2005)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
(these are short conference papers containing no new information; long journal papers that arose from invited conference presentations and reported new results are in the main list)

17. T. Tatsuno, M. Barnes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. G. Howes, R. Numata, G. G. Plunk, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Turbulent cascade of entropy in two-dimensional electrostatic turbulence using gyrokinetics,''
in Proc. Asia-Pacific Plasma Theory Conf., Aomori, Japan, 27-30 Oct. 2009,
J. Plasma Fusion Res. SERIES, to be published (2009)

16. T. A. Enßlin, T. Clarke, C. Vogt, A. Waelkens, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Magnetic turbulence in clusters of galaxies,''
in Proc. XXVII IAU General Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 Aug. 2009,
to be published by Cambridge University Press (2009)

15. I. G. Abel, M. Barnes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, A. A. Schekochihin, and T. Tatsuno,
``Model collision operators for numerical gyrokinetics,''
in Theory of Fusion Plasmas, O. Sauter, X. Garbet, and E. Sindoni, Eds.,
Proc. Joint Varenna-Lausanne Intl. Workshop, Varenna, 25-29 Aug. 2008,
AIP Conf. Proc. 1069, 233 (2008)

14. T. A. Enßlin, T. Clarke, C. Vogt, A. Waelkens, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Magnetic turbulence in clusters of galaxies,''
in Magnetic Fields in the Universe II: From Laboratory and Stars to the Primordial Universe, A. Esquivel, J. Franco, G. García-Segura, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, A. Lazarian, and A. Raga, Eds.,
Proc. Intl. Conf., Cozumel, Mexico, 28 Jan.-1 Feb. 2008,
RevMexAA(SC) 36, 209 (2009)

13. G. G. Howes, S. C. Cowley, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, E. Quataert, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Dissipation-scale turbulence in the solar wind,''
in: Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas, D. Shaikh and G. P. Zank., Eds.,
Proc. 6th Ann. Intl. Astrophys. Conf., Oahu, Hawaii, 16-22 Mar. 2007,
AIP Conf. Proc. 932, 3 (2007) [e-print arXiv:0707.3149]

12. T. A. Yousef, F. Rincon, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Exact scaling laws, nonlocality and structure in isotropic MHD turbulence,''
in: Advances in Turbulence XI, J. M. L. M. Palma and A. Silva Lopes, Eds.,
Proc. 11th EUROMECH European Turbulence Conf., Porto, Portugal, 25-28 June 2007
(Berlin: Springer, 2007), 76

11. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, and T. A. Yousef,
``MHD turbulence: nonlocal, anisotropic, nonuniversal?'' (pdf, 500 kb)
in: Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence,
Proc. IUTAM Symposium, Nagoya, Japan, 11-14 Sept. 2006
(Berlin: Springer, 2007), 339

10. N. F. Loureiro, S. C. Cowley, W. D. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``FLR effects in nonlinear tearing mode reconnection,''
Proc. 33rd EPS Conf. on Plasma Phys., Rome, Italy, 19-23 June 2006,
ECA 30I, P-4.072 (2006)

9. N. F. Loureiro, S. C. Cowley, W. D. Dorland, M. G. Haines, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Nonlinear tearing mode reconnection,''
Proc. 32nd EPS Plasma Phys. Conf., Tarragona, Spain, 27 June - 1 July 2005,
ECA 29C, O-4.024 (2005)

8. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, R. M. Kulsrud, G. W. Hammett, and P. Sharma,
``Magnetised plasma turbulence in clusters of galaxies,"
in: The Magnetized Plasma in Galaxy Evolution, K. T. Chyzy, R.-J. Dettmar, K. Otmianowska-Mazur, and M. Soida, Eds.,
Proc. Intl. Conf., Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 27 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2004
(Cracow: Jagiellonian University, 2005), 86 [e-print astro-ph/0411781]

7. N. F. Loureiro, S. C. Cowley, W. D. Dorland, M. G. Haines, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Fast and slow nonlinear tearing mode reconnection,''
Proc. 31st EPS Conf. on Plasma Phys., London, UK, 28 June - 2 July 2004,
ECA 28G, P-4.208 (2004) [e-print physics/0407047]

6. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, S. F. Taylor, G. W. Hammett, J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams,
``MHD turbulence and saturation of small-scale dynamo,"
Proc. 31st EPS Conf. on Plasma Phys., London, UK, 28 June - 2 July 2004,
ECA 28G, O-4.17 (2004)

5. N. F. Loureiro, S. C. Cowley, W. D. Dorland, M. G. Haines, and A. A. Schekochihin,
``Aspects of tearing mode physics,''
Proc. 30th EPS Conf. on Contr. Fusion and Plasma Phys., St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-11 July 2003,
ECA 27A, P-3.96 (2003)

4. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams,
``The self-similar turbulent dynamo,''
Proc. 30th EPS Conf. on Contr. Fusion and Plasma Phys., St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-11 July 2003,
ECA 27A, P-2.202 (2003)

3. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, S. F. Taylor, J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams,
``From small-scale dynamo to isotropic MHD turbulence,''
in: Magnetic Fields and Star Formation: Theory vs. Observations, A. I. Gómez de Castro, M. Heyer, E. Vázquez-Semadeni, R. Rebolo, M. Tagger, and R. E. Pudritz, Eds.,
Proc. Intl. Workshop, Madrid, Spain, 21-25 Apr. 2003,
Astrophys. Space Sci. 292, 141 (2004) [e-print astro-ph/0306296 --- the e-print is free of the many typos introduced by the publisher into the journal version]

2. A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, G. W. Hammett, J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams,
``The nonlinear small-scale dynamo and isotropic MHD turbulence,''
Proc. 29th EPS Conf. on Plasma Phys. and Contr. Fusion, Montreux, Switzerland, 17-21 June 2002,
ECA 26B, P-4.035 (2002) [e-print astro-ph/0207151]

1. A. Schekochihin, J. Maron, S. Cowley, and J. C. McWilliams,
``Structure of MHD turbulence in large-Prandtl-number plasmas,''
in: Advances in Turbulence IX, I. P. Castro, P. E. Hancock, and T. G. Thomas, Eds.,
Proc. 9th European Turbulence Conf., Southhampton, UK, 2-5 July 2002
(Barcelona: CIMNE, 2002), 785