Alexander Schekochihin

Research.com Recognitions

• 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For elucidating fundamental aspects of turbulence in magnetized plasma with application to magnetic field amplification, heating, and transport in astrophysical, space, and laboratory plasmas

Overview

Best Publications

• Astrophysical Gyrokinetics: Kinetic and Fluid Turbulent Cascades in Magnetized Weakly Collisional Plasmas

  A. A. Schekochihin;A. A. Schekochihin;S. C. Cowley;S. C. Cowley;W. Dorland;G. W. Hammett

  970
  Citations

• Instability of current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains

  N. F. Loureiro;N. F. Loureiro;A. A. Schekochihin;A. A. Schekochihin;S. C. Cowley

  779
  Citations

• Simulations of small-scale turbulent dynamo

  A. A. Schekochihin;S. C. Cowley;S. C. Cowley;S. F. Taylor;J. L. Maron;J. L. Maron

  593
  Citations

• Simulations of the Small-Scale Turbulent Dynamo

  Alexander A. Schekochihin;Alexander A. Schekochihin;Steven C. Cowley;Steven C. Cowley;Samuel F. Taylor;Samuel F. Taylor;Jason L. Maron;Jason L. Maron

  552
  Citations

• Fast Magnetic Reconnection in the Plasmoid-Dominated Regime

  D. A. Uzdensky;D. A. Uzdensky;N. F. Loureiro;N. F. Loureiro;A. A. Schekochihin;A. A. Schekochihin

  410
  Citations

• A Model of Turbulence in Magnetized Plasmas: Implications for the Dissipation Range in the Solar Wind

  G. G. Howes;S. C. Cowley;S. C. Cowley;W. Dorland;G. W. Hammett

  400
  Citations

• Kinetic Simulations of Magnetized Turbulence in Astrophysical Plasmas

  G. G. Howes;W. Dorland;S. C. Cowley;S. C. Cowley;G. W. Hammett

  345
  Citations

• Astrophysical Gyrokinetics: Basic Equations and Linear Theory

  Gregory G. Howes;Steven C. Cowley;Steven C. Cowley;William Dorland;Gregory W. Hammett

  344
  Citations

• Turbulent heating in galaxy clusters brightest in X-rays

  I. Zhuravleva;E. Churazov;A. A. Schekochihin;S. W. Allen;S. W. Allen

  334
  Citations

• Gyrokinetic simulations of solar wind turbulence from ion to electron scales.

  Gregory G. Howes;Gregory G. Howes;Jason M. TenBarge;William Dorland;William Dorland;Eliot Quataert

  280
  Citations

• Formation of Plasmoid Chains in Magnetic Reconnection

  R. Samtaney;N. F. Loureiro;D. A. Uzdensky;A. A. Schekochihin

  267
  Citations

• Firehose and Mirror Instabilities in a Collisionless Shearing Plasma

  Matthew Walter Kunz;Alexander A. Schekochihin;James McLellan Stone

  246
  Citations

• X-Ray surface brightness and gas density fluctuations in the Coma cluster

  E. Churazov;A. Vikhlinin;I. Zhuravleva;A. Schekochihin

  238
  Citations

• Plasma Instabilities and Magnetic Field Growth in Clusters of Galaxies

  A. A. Schekochihin;S. C. Cowley;R. M. Kulsrud;G. W. Hammett

  233
  Citations

• Anisotropy of solar wind turbulence between ion and electron scales.

  C. H. K. Chen;T. S. Horbury;A. A. Schekochihin;R. T. Wicks

  227
  Citations

• Magnetic reconnection and stochastic plasmoid chains in high-Lundquist-number plasmas

  N. F. Loureiro;Ravi Samtaney;A. A. Schekochihin;D. A. Uzdensky

  212
  Citations

• Fluctuation dynamo and turbulent induction at low magnetic Prandtl numbers

  A A Schekochihin;A A Schekochihin;A B Iskakov;S C Cowley;S C Cowley;J C McWilliams

  211
  Citations

• Anisotropy of Alfv'enic Turbulence in the Solar Wind and Numerical Simulations

  C. H. K. Chen;A. Mallet;T. A. Yousef;A. A. Schekochihin

  208
  Citations

• A model of nonlinear evolution and saturation of the turbulent MHD dynamo

  A A Schekochihin;S C Cowley;G W Hammett;G W Hammett;J L Maron;J L Maron

  208
  Citations

• Interplanetary and interstellar plasma turbulence

  A A Schekochihin;A A Schekochihin;S C Cowley;S C Cowley;W Dorland

  97
  Citations