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Towards Synthetic Magnetic Turbulence with Coherent Structures

Space Physics 2024-05-08 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Plasma Physics

Abstract

Synthetic turbulence is a relevant tool to study complex astrophysical and space plasma environments inaccessible by direct simulation. However, conventional models lack intermittent coherent structures, which are essential in realistic turbulence. We present a novel method, featuring coherent structures, conditional structure function scaling and fieldline curvature statistics comparable to magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. Enhanced transport of charged particles is investigated as well. This method presents significant progress towards physically faithful synthetic turbulence.

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@article{arxiv.2401.10573,
  title  = {Towards Synthetic Magnetic Turbulence with Coherent Structures},
  author = {Jeremiah Lübke and Frederic Effenberger and Mike Wilbert and Horst Fichtner and Rainer Grauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.10573},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters (EPL). Fixed small error in Fig. 5. The pseudocode listing is provided as an ancillary file

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