Alfvenic fluctuations as asymptotic states of MHD turbulence

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Jan 1982

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 105, no. 1, Jan. 1982, p. 6-14.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Satellite Observation, Solar Magnetic Field, Solar Wind Velocity, Asymptotes, Closure Law, Correlation, Incompressible Flow, Isotropic Turbulence, Plasma Waves

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Satellite observations of the solar wind show a fully developed turbulent state in which the velocity and magnetic fluctuations are often very strongly correlated. To investigate a possible dynamical origin of this correlation, a two-point closure method is applied to study the time evolution of incompressible, homogeneous, mirror-symmetric MHD turbulence with nonzero velocity-magnetic fields correlation. Analytical and numerical evidence is presented showing that nonlinear interactions lead asymptotically to a state of maximal correlation. This supports a recent conjecture, based on one-point closure of Dobrowolny, Mangeney and Veltri (1980). Implications of this result for the origin of strongly correlated turbulence in the solar wind are discussed.

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