Von Kármán self-preservation hypothesis for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and its consequences for universality

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 697, Issue , 2012, Pages 296-315

  Wan, Minping ^a   Oughton, Sean ^b   Servidio, Sergio ^c   Matthaeus, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

homogeneous turbulence; MHD turbulence; turbulence theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; TURBULENCE;

EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; EXPLICIT DEPENDENCES; HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC TURBULENCE; MEAN MAGNETIC FIELD; MHD TURBULENCE; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; TURBULENCE THEORY;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

CORRELATION; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84859516935     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.61     Document Type: Article

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