Intermittency and the Passive Nature of the Magnitude of the Magnetic Field

2004/01/31 by A. Bershadskii, K. R. Sreenivasan · 3 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #nlin.CD

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.93.064501

published as Physical Review Letters, 93 (2004) 064501

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Abstract

It is shown that the statistical properties of the magnitude of the magnetic field in turbulent electrically conducting media resemble, in the inertial range, those of passive scalars in fully developed three-dimensional fluid turbulence. This conclusion, suggested by the data from the Advanced Composition Explorer, is supported by a brief analysis of the appropriate magnetohydrodynamic equations.

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• Intermittency in random media

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