Turbulent transport and coherent structures in 3D plasmas

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/1/015501MaRDI QIDQ2994540zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Keith Leitmeyer

Publication date 2 August 2016

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04887

zbMATH Keywords

magnetohydrodynamicsturbulencesolar wind

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geo-electricity and geomagnetism (86A25) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25)

Abstract: Kinetic and magnetic enstrophy are shown to concentrate to smaller scales from the integral scale to a Kraichnan-type scale for the 3D magnetohydrodynamic equations. This is an improvement of the result from Bradshaw and Gruji'c (2013), using redesigned ensemble averages.

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