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Anisotropic spectra of acoustic type turbulence

Plasma Physics 2009-11-13 v1 Geophysics

Abstract

We consider the problem of spectra for acoustic type of turbulence generated by shocks being randomly distributed in space. We show that for turbulence with a weak anisotropy such spectra have the same dependence in kk-space as the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) spectrum: E(k)k2E(k)\sim k^{-2}. However, the frequency spectrum has always the falling ω2\sim \omega^{-2}, independently on anisotropy. In the strong anisotropic case the energy distribution relative to wave vectors takes anisotropic dependence forming in the large % k region the spectra of the jet type.

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@article{arxiv.0804.3540,
  title  = {Anisotropic spectra of acoustic type turbulence},
  author = {E. Kuznetsov and V. Krasnoselskikh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3540},
  year   = {2009}
}
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