Direct comparisons of compressible magnetohydrodynamics and reduced magnetohydrodynamics turbulence

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Dmitruk, Pablo ^a   Matthaeus, William H ^a   Oughton, Sean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACH NUMBER; MEAN MAGNETIC FIELD; MEAN-SQUARE CURRENT; SPATIAL COORDINATES;

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; POLARIZATION; SET THEORY; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 28444443789     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2128573     Document Type: Article

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