Evolution of energy-containing turbulent eddies in the solar wind

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Evolution of energy-containing turbulent eddies in the solar wind
المؤلفون: Matthaeus, William H, Oughton, Sean, Pontius, Duane H., Jr, Zhou, YE
المصدر: Journal of Geophysical Research. 99(A10)
بيانات النشر: United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 1994.
سنة النشر: 1994
مصطلحات موضوعية: Solar Physics
الوصف: Previous theoretical treatments of fluid-scale turbulence in the solar wind have concentrated on describing the state and dynamical evolution of fluctuations in the inertial range, which are characterized by power law energy spectra. In the present paper a model for the evolution of somewhat larger, more energetic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluctuations is developed by analogy with classical hydrodynamic turbulence in the quasi-equilibrium range. The model is constructed by assembling and extending existing phenomenologies of homogeneous MHD turbulence, as well as simple two-length-scale models for transport of MHD turbulence in a weekly inhomogeneous medium. A set of equations is presented for the evolution of the turbulence, including the transport and nonlinear evolution of magnetic and kinetic energy, cross helicity, and their correlation scales. Two versions of the model are derived, depending on whether the fluctuations are distributed isotropically in three dimensions or restricted to the two-dimensional plane perpendicular to the mean magnetic field. This model includes a number of potentially important physical effects that have been neglected in previous discussions of transport of solar wind turbulence.
نوع الوثيقة: Report
اللغة: English
تدمد: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/94JA01233
الوصول الحر: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19950045374Test
ملاحظات: NSF ATM-89-13627
رقم الانضمام: edsnas.19950045374
قاعدة البيانات: NASA Technical Reports
الوصف
تدمد:01480227
DOI:10.1029/94JA01233