Diagnostics for Turbulence in Plasma

Turbulence is a complex phenomenon which characterizes certain fluid flows. Developing tools to extract statistics from turbulence is an integral part of understanding this phenomenon. To model turbulence, two- and three-dimensional fluid and kinetic simulations are performed using the Gkeyll code.This project focuses on creatinggeneral tools to understand the impact of various parameters on turbulence spectra, detecting and characterizing intermittent structures such as blobs and current sheets, and minimizingresolution requirements to extract a given structure and scale in a plasma.