Inertial range scaling, Kármán-Howarth theorem, and intermittency for forced and decaying Lagrangian averaged magnetohydrodynamic equations in two dimensions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Graham, J Pietarila ^a   Holm, D D ^b,c   Mininni, P ^a   Pouquet, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PRANDTL NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

KARMAN-HOWARTH THEOREM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC TURBULENCE;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PRANDTL NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33745620215     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2194966     Document Type: Article

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