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Chandran, B. D. G.; Schekochihin, A. A.; Mallet, A., E-mail: benjamin.chandran@unh.edu2015
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[en] We develop an analytic model of intermittent, three-dimensional, strong, reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence with zero cross helicity. We take the fluctuation amplitudes to have a log-Poisson distribution and incorporate into the model a new phenomenology of scale-dependent dynamic alignment between the Elsässer variables . We find that the structure function scales as , where is the variation in across a distance perpendicular to the magnetic field. We calculate the value of β to be ≃ 0.69 based on our assumption that the most intense coherent structures are two-dimensional with a volume filling factor . Two consequences of this structure-function scaling are that the total-energy power spectrum is and the kurtosis of the fluctuations is . Our model resolves the problem that alignment angles defined in different ways exhibit different scalings. Specifically, we find that the energy-weighted average angle between the velocity and magnetic-field fluctuations is , the energy-weighted average angle between and is , and the average angle between and without energy weighting is when , where L is the outer scale. We also carry out a direct numerical simulation of RMHD turbulence. The scalings in our model are similar to the scalings in this simulation as well as the structure-function scalings observed in the slow solar wind.
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/807/1/39; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Since 2009, the country of publication for this journal is the UK.
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