Turbulent Cascade at 1 AU in High Cross-Helicity Flows

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Nov 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009phrvl.103t1101s&link_type=abstract

Physical Review Letters, vol. 103, Issue 20, id. 201101

Physics

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Solar Wind Plasma, Sources Of Solar Wind, Magnetohydrodynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics And Plasmas

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Analysis of the scaling of the mixed third moments of velocity and magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind plasma, and the energy cascade rates derived from the scaling, reveal a strong dependence on the amount of cross-field correlation between the velocity and magnetic field fluctuations. When the correlation is greater than about 75%, the cascade rate of the outward-propagating (majority) component, and of the total energy and the cross-helicity are surprisingly negative. This indicates a back transfer of energy from small to large scales within the inertial range of the dominant outward-propagating component. It is clear that the transfer of energy acts to reinforce the dominance of the outward-propagating (majority) component and may explain, in part, the persistent observations of large cross-field correlations that have been a defining aspect of solar wind physics for almost 40 years.

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