Small-Scale Structures in Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
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Small-scale structures in three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence.
We investigate using direct numerical simulations with grids up to 1536(3) points, the rate at which small scales develop in a decaying three-dimensional MHD flow both for deterministic and random initial conditions. Parallel current and vorticity sheets form at the same spatial locations, and further destabilize and fold or roll up after an initial exponential phase. At high Reynolds numbers, ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.97.244503