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In spite of a large number of papers dedicated to study MHD turbulence in the solar wind there are still some simple questions which have never been sufficiently addressed like: a)do we really know how the magnetic field vector orientation…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Bruno , B. Bavassano , V. Carbone , L. Primavera , F. Malara , L. Sorriso-Valvo , P. Veltri

We analyze offshore wind speeds with a time resolution of one second over a long period of 20 months for different heights above the sea level. Energy spectra extending over more than seven decades give a comprehensive picture of wind…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-20 So-Kumneth Sim , Joachim Peinke , Philipp Maass

Turbulence is a ubiquitous process that transfers energy across many spatial and temporal scales, thereby influencing particle transport and heating. Recent progress has improved our understanding of the anisotropy of turbulence with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Chuanpeng Hou

Fluctuations in the flow velocity and magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Solar System. These fluctuations are turbulent, in the sense that they are disordered and span a broad range of scales in both space and time. The study of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-04 F. Fraternale , L. Gallana , M. Iovieno , M. Opher , J. D. Richardson , D. Tordella

Spectral properties of the turbulent cascade from fluid to kinetic scales in collisionless plasmas are investigated by means of large-size three-dimensional (3D) hybrid (fluid electrons, kinetic protons) particle-in-cell simulations.…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Luca Franci , Simone Landi , Andrea Verdini , Lorenzo Matteini , Petr Hellinger

In this paper we investigate spectral and phase coherence properties of magnetic fluctuations in the vicinity of the spectral transition from large, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) to sub-ion scales using in-situ measurements of the Wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Sonny Lion , Olga Alexandrova , Arnaud Zaslavsky

The inverse cascade in MHD turbulence plays a crucial role in various astrophysical processes such as galaxy cluster formation, solar and stellar dynamo mechanisms, and the evolution of primordial magnetic fields in the early universe. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Jiyao Zhang , Axel Brandenburg

We study intermittency as a departure from self-similarity of the solar wind magnetic turbulence and investigate the evolution with the heliocentric distance and latitude. We use data from the Ulysses spacecraft measured during two solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Anna Wawrzaszek , Marius Echim , Wiesław M. Macek , Roberto Bruno

We study various time series of surface layer wind velocity at different locations and provide evidences for the intermittent nature of the wind fluctuations in mesoscale range. By means of the magnitude covariance analysis, which is shown…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. F. Muzy , R. Baile , P. Poggi

The statistical properties of magnetic discontinuities in the solar wind are investigated by measuring fluctuations in the magnetic field direction, given by the rotation Delta theta that the magnetic field vector undergoes during time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladimir Zhdankin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Joanne Mason

We investigate the dependence of solar wind fluctuations measured by the Wind spacecraft on scale and on the degree of alignment between oppositely directed Elsasser fields. This alignment controls the strength of the non-linear…

A model-independent first-principle first-order investigation of the shape of turbulent density-power spectra in the ion-inertial range of the solar wind at 1 AU is presented. De-magnetised ions in the ion-inertial range of quasi-neutral…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann , Yasuhito Narita

Low frequency turbulence in Saturn's magnetosheath is investigated using in-situ measurements of the Cassini spacecraft. Focus is put on the magnetic energy spectra computed in the frequency range $\sim[10^{-4}, 1]$Hz. A set of 42 time…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 L. Z. Hadid , F. Sahraoui , K. H. Kiyani , A. Retinò , R. Modolo , P. Canu , A. Masters , M. K. Dougherty

We investigate the anisotropy of Alfv\'enic turbulence in the inertial range of slow solar wind and in both driven and decaying reduced magnetohydrodynamic simulations. A direct comparison is made by measuring the anisotropic second-order…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-08-20 C. H. K. Chen , A. Mallet , T. A. Yousef , A. A. Schekochihin , T. S. Horbury

An efficient approach for extracting 3D local averages in spherical subdomains is proposed and applied to study the intermittency of small-scale velocity and scalar fields in direct numerical simulations of isotropic turbulence. We focus on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-12 Dhawal Buaria , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

We investigate the validity of Taylor's Hypothesis (TH) in the analysis of Alfv\'enic fluctuations of velocity and magnetic fields in solar wind streams measured by Parker Solar Probe (PSP)~during the first four encounters. We use PSP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Jean C. Perez , Sofiane Bourouaine , Christopher H. K. Chen , Nour E. Raouafi

Preliminary results are presented which suggest that scaling and singularity characteristics of solar wind and ground based magnetic fluctuations appear to be a significant component in the solar wind - magnetosphere interaction processes.…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Z. Vörös , D. Jankovičová , P. Kovács

The large scale features of the solar wind are examined in order to predict small scale features of turbulence in unexplored regions of the heliosphere. The strategy is to examine how system size, or effective Reynolds number, varies, and…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Tulasi N. Parashar , Manuel Cuesta , William H. Matthaeus

Turbulence is ubiquitous in plasmas, leading to rich dynamics characterized by irregularity, irreversibility, energy fluctuations across many scales, and energy transfer across many scales. Another fundamental and generic feature of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Vladimir Zhdankin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Radio waves are strongly scattered in the solar wind, so that their apparent sources seem to be considerably larger and shifted than the actual ones. Since the scattering depends on the spectrum of density turbulence, better understanding…