Authors: Sohom Roy (University of Delaware), Riddhi Bandyopadhyay (Princeton University), Yan Yang (University of Delaware), William H. Matthaeus (University of Delaware)

One of the major problems in the study of collisionless astrophysical
plasmas is understanding the nature of the scale-to-scale energy
transfer and dissipation in these systems. Previous studies have shown
that dissipation is correlated more strongly with the second
invariants of the symmetric strain tensor as compared to that of the
vorticity and current (Yang et. al. 2017, Bandyopadhyay et. al. 2020).
However, the dependence of the cross-scale energy fluxes on these
quantities has not been previously investigated for plasmas. Here, we
present conditional statistics illustrating the dependence of the
energy fluxes on the second invariants of the symmetric strain tensor,
vorticity and current from MMS observations and 2.5D PIC simulations.