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EXTENDED MHD TURBULENCE and ITS APPLICATIONS to the SOLAR WIND
Abdelhamid H.M., Lingam M., Mahajan S.M.
Published in Institute of Physics Publishing
2016
Volume: 829
   
Issue: 2
Abstract
Extended MHD is a one-fluid model that incorporates two-fluid effects such as electron inertia and the Hall drift. This model is used to construct fully nonlinear Alfvénic wave solutions, and thereby derive the kinetic and magnetic spectra by resorting to a Kolmogorov-like hypothesis based on the constant cascading rates of the energy and generalized helicities of this model. The magnetic and kinetic spectra are derived in the ideal (k < 1/λi), Hall (1/λi < k < 1/λi), and electron inertia (k > 1/λe)regimes; k is the wavenumber and λs = c/ωps is the skin depth of species "s." In the Hall regime, it is shown that the emergent results are fully consistent with previous numerical and analytical studies, especially in the context of the solar wind. The focus is primarily on the electron inertia regime, where magnetic energy spectra with power-law indexes of and are always recovered. The latter, in particular, is quite close to recent observational evidence from the solar wind with a potential slope of approximately -4 in this regime. It is thus plausible that these spectra may constitute a part of the (extended) inertial range, as opposed to the standard "dissipation" range paradigm. © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
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