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Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmsh13a0393w&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #SH13A-0393
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7859 Transport Processes, 7863 Turbulence (4490)
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Many types of space and laboratory plasmas involve turbulent fluctuations with an approximately uniform mean magnetic field B_0, and the field line random walk plays an important role in guiding particle motions. Much of the relevant literature concerns isotropic turbulence, and has mostly been perturbative, i.e., for small fluctuations, or based on numerical simulations for specific conditions. On the other hand, solar wind turbulence is apparently anisotropic, and has been modeled as a sum of idealized two-dimensional and one dimensional (slab) components, but with the deficiency of containing no oblique wave vectors. In the present work, we address the above issues with non-perturbative analytic calculations of diffusive field line random walks for unpolarized, arbitrarily stretched isotropic turbulence, including the limits of nearly one-dimensional (highly stretched) and nearly two-dimensional (highly squashed) turbulence. We develop implicit analytic formulae for the diffusion coefficients D_x and D_z, two coupled integral equations in which D_x and D_z appear inside 3-dimensional integrals over all k-space, are solved numerically with the aid of Mathematica routines for specific cases. We can vary the parameters B0 and β, the stretching along z for constant turbulent energy. Furthermore, we obtain analytic closed-form solutions in all extreme cases. We obtain 0.54 < D_z/D_x < 2, indicating an approximately isotropic random walk even for very anisotropic (unpolarized) turbulence, a surprising result. For a given β, the diffusion coefficient vs. B0 can be described by a Padé approximant. We find quasilinear behavior at high B0 and percolative behavior at low B_0. Partially supported by a Sritrangthong Scholarship from the Faculty of Science, Mahidol University; the Thailand Research Fund; NASA Grant NNG05GG83G; and Thailand's Commission for Higher Education.
Matthaeus William H.
Rowlands George
Ruffolo David
Wongpan P.
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