Critical balance in magnetohydrodynamic, rotating and stratified turbulence: Towards a universal scaling conjecture

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 677, Issue , 2011, Pages 134-153

  Nazarenko, Sergei V ^a,c   Schekochihin, Alexander A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT HENRI POINCARÉ   (France)

Author keywords

MHD turbulence; rotating turbulence; stratified turbulence

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

KOLMOGOROV TURBULENCE; LINEAR PROPAGATION; MHD TURBULENCE; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; ROTATING TURBULENCE; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; STRONG ANISOTROPY; UNIVERSAL SCALING;

TURBULENCE;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; ROSSBY NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 79959277756     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211201100067X     Document Type: Article

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