Published June 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Anisotropic spectra of acoustic type turbulence

  • 1. P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, 53 Leninsky Ave., 119991 Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 2. LPCE, 3A Avenue de la Recherche Scientifique 45071 Orleans, CEDEX 2 (France)

Description

The problem of spectra for acoustic type of turbulence generated by shocks being randomly distributed in space is considered. It is shown that for turbulence with a weak anisotropy, such spectra have the same dependence in k-space as the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili spectrum: E(k)∼k-2. However, the frequency spectrum has always the falling ∼ω-2, independent of anisotropy. In the strong anisotropic case the energy distribution relative to wave vectors takes anisotropic dependence, forming in the large-k region spectra of the jet type

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics of Plasmas
Journal Volume
15
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 062305-062305.5
ISSN
1070-664X
CODEN
PHPAEN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40002951
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
ANISOTROPY; ENERGY SPECTRA; SHOCK WAVES; SPACE; TURBULENCE; VECTORS
Descriptors DEC
SPECTRA; TENSORS

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