Measurement of the rugged invariants of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind

Details Measurement of the rugged invariants of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind Measurement of the rugged invariants of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind

Aug 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....87.6011m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 87, Aug. 1, 1982, p. 6011-6028. NASA-supported research.

Physics

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Energy Spectra, Incompressible Fluids, Magnetic Flux, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Solar Wind, Magnetic Field Configurations, Solar Magnetic Field, Solar Wind Velocity, Three Dimensional Flow, Voyager Project

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Measurements of the total energy, cross helicity, and magnetic helicity of the solar wind at 1, 2.8, and 5 AU are presented. These quantities are the three rugged invariants of three-dimensional ideal incompressible MHD turbulence theory. The theoretical technique for measuring the magnetic helicity from the matrix of two-point correlations is shown. The length scales characterizing the magnetic helicity are found to be equal to or greater than those which characterize the magnetic energy. The magnetic helicity typically lies at scales larger than the magnetic correlation length, consistent with the expectations of the inverse cascade and selective decay hypotheses of three-dimensional MHD turbulence. At smaller scales, the magnetic helicity oscillates in sign. Measurements of the cross helicity are not fully consistent with the usual interpretation in terms of outward propagating Alfvenic functions. Especially during the interval at 5 AU the cross helicity is found to oscillate in sign indicating fluctuations propagating both outward and inward.

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