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Energy transfer and conversion in Strongly Anisotropic Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
Damiano Capocci, Sean Oughton, Moritz Linkmann
In homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence without a background magnetic field driven by mechanical forces, an exact decomposition of the energy fluxes (D. Capocci et al.,…
Factors Controlling the Statistics of Magnetic Reconnection in MHD Turbulence
M. B. Khan, M. A. Shay, S. Oughton +9
We study the statistics of dynamical quantities associated with magnetic reconnection events embedded in a sea of strong background magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence using direc…
Estimation of Effective Viscosity to Quantify Collisional Behavior in Collisionless Plasma
Subash Adhikari, Carlos Gonzalez, Yan Yang +4
While dissipation in collisional plasma is defined in terms of viscosity and resistivity, the exact functional form of dissipation i.e., the so-called dissipation function in nearl…
Statistics of Turbulence in the Solar Wind. I. What is the Reynolds Number of the Solar Wind?
Daniel Wrench, Tulasi N. Parashar, Sean Oughton +2
The Reynolds number, Re, is an important quantity for describing a turbulent flow. It tells us about the bandwidth over which energy can cascade from large scales to smaller ones,…
Effective Viscosity, Resistivity, and Reynolds Number in Weakly Collisional Plasma Turbulence
Yan Yang, William H. Matthaeus, Sean Oughton +6
We examine dissipation and energy conversion in weakly collisional plasma turbulence, employing in situ observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission and kinetic Pa…
Critical Balance and the Physics of MHD Turbulence
Sean Oughton, William H. Matthaeus
A discussion of the advantages and limitations of the concept of critical balance, as employed in turbulence phenomenologies, is presented. The incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (…
A Detailed Examination of Anisotropy and Timescales in Three-dimensional Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
Rohit Chhiber, William H. Matthaeus, Sean Oughton +1
When magnetohydrodynamic turbulence evolves in the presence of a large-scale mean magnetic field, an anisotropy develops relative to that preferred direction. The well-known tenden…
Finite Dissipation in Anisotropic Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, S. Oughton, M. Wan +3
In presence of an externally supported, mean magnetic field a turbulent, conducting medium, such as plasma, becomes anisotropic. This mean magnetic field, which is separate from th…
Anisotropic scaling of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
T. S. Horbury, M. A. Forman, S. Oughton
We present a quantitative estimate of the anisotropic power and scaling of magnetic field fluctuations in inertial range magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, using a novel wavelet techn…