Understanding plasma: Insights from Saturn's rings to fusion technology

Scientists from IIT Jammu and IIT Kanpur employed supercomputing power to monitor plasma behavior. By using LAMMPS to model Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, the team discovered that charged dust particles transform the energy of swirling fluids into tiny amounts of heat. This heat exhibits properties more similar to elastic rubber than to a standard gas.