On the energy spectrum of strong magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Perez, Jean Carlos ^a,b   Mason, Joanne ^c   Boldyrev, Stanislav ^b   Cattaneo, Fausto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY SPECTRA; GUIDE FIELD; HIGH RESOLUTION; INERTIAL RANGES; KOLMOGOROV CONSTANT; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC TURBULENCE; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS TURBULENCES; MESH POINTS; NUMERICAL RESOLUTION; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; SCALE-DEPENDENT DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL SAMPLES; STEADY STATE;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84872382928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041005     Document Type: Article

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