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Structure of Stationary Strong Imbalanced Turbulence

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2009-08-17 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

In this paper we systematically study the spectrum and structure of incompressible MHD turbulence by means of high resolution direct numerical simulations. We considered both balanced and imbalanced (cross-helical) cases and simulated sub-Alfvenic as well as trans-Alfvenic turbulence. This paper extends numerics preliminarily reported in Beresnyak & Lazarian (2008). We confirm that driven imbalanced turbulence has a stationary state even for high degrees of imbalance. Our major finding is that the structure of the dominant and subdominant Alfvenic components are notably different. Using the most robust observed quantities, such as the energy ratio, we were able to reject several existing models of strong imbalanced turbulence.

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@article{arxiv.0904.2574,
  title  = {Structure of Stationary Strong Imbalanced Turbulence},
  author = {A. Beresnyak and A. Lazarian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2574},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, 13 figs, ApJ accepted

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