Evolution of energy-containing turbulent eddies in the solar wind

Details Evolution of energy-containing turbulent eddies in the solar wind Evolution of energy-containing turbulent eddies in the solar wind

Oct 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....9919267m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 99, no. A10, p. 19,267-19,287

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Evolution (Development), Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamics, Power Spectra, Solar Wind, Vortices, Energy Transfer, Kinetic Energy, Magnetic Fields, Mathematical Models

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Previous theoretical treatments of fluid-scale turbulence in the solar wind have concentrated on describing the state and dynamical evolution of fluctuations in the inertial range, which are characterized by power law energy spectra. In the present paper a model for the evolution of somewhat larger, more energetic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluctuations is developed by analogy with classical hydrodynamic turbulence in the quasi-equilibrium range. The model is constructed by assembling and extending existing phenomenologies of homogeneous MHD turbulence, as well as simple two-length-scale models for transport of MHD turbulence in a weekly inhomogeneous medium. A set of equations is presented for the evolution of the turbulence, including the transport and nonlinear evolution of magnetic and kinetic energy, cross helicity, and their correlation scales. Two versions of the model are derived, depending on whether the fluctuations are distributed isotropically in three dimensions or restricted to the two-dimensional plane perpendicular to the mean magnetic field. This model includes a number of potentially important physical effects that have been neglected in previous discussions of transport of solar wind turbulence.

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