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Over the last several years, gyrokinetics has emerged as a new approach to studying magnetized, weakly collisional space plasmas, complementing fully kinetic and hybrid kinetic-fluid approaches. Initial applications include, in particular, plasma turbulence at kinetic scales and magnetic reconnection in the presence of guide fields. The present chapter consists of an accessible introduction to gyrokinetics, an overview of computational aspects of gyrokinetics, and a summary of key results obtained by applying gyrokinetics to turbulent heating in the solar wind. It ends with a brief outlook regarding future work.

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Notes

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    Here and throughout this chapter, we employ cgs units.

  2. 2.

    In the case of the mean values, the spatiotemporal dependencies are assumed to be slow or even absent (in certain situations).

  3. 3.

    A hybrid kinetic-fluid approach would also shed some light on this issue, but it is hampered by the absence of electron Landau damping.

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Jenko, F. (2023). Gyrokinetics. In: Büchner, J. (eds) Space and Astrophysical Plasma Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11870-8_4

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