Anisotropy and energy decay in magneto-hydrodynamic turbulence: theory and solar wind observations

Fluid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 46, Issue , 1998, Pages 475-478

  Oughton, S ^a   Matthaeus, W H ^b   Ghosh, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfven Wave; Dissipation Scale; Solar Wind; Solar Wind Plasma; Solar Wind Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 5944221441     PISSN: 09265112     EISSN: 22150056     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5118-4_119     Document Type: Article

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