dc.contributor.author | Mason, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhdankin, V | |
dc.contributor.author | Boldyrev, S | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-10T08:54:38Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-24T08:19:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-03-14 | |
dc.description.abstract | In magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, the large-scale magnetic field sets a preferred local direction for the small-scale dynamics, altering the statistics of turbulence from the isotropic case. This happens even in the absence of a total magnetic flux, since MHD turbulence forms randomly oriented large-scale domains of strong magnetic field. It is therefore customary to study small-scale magnetic plasma turbulence by assuming a strong background magnetic field relative to the turbulent fluctuations. This is done, for example, in reduced models of plasmas, such as reduced MHD, reduced-dimension kinetic models, gyrokinetics, etc., which make theoretical calculations easier and numerical computations cheaper. Recently, however, it has become clear that the turbulent energy dissipation is concentrated in the regions of strong magnetic field variations. A significant fraction of the energy dissipation may be localized in very small volumes corresponding to the boundaries between strongly magnetized domains. In these regions, the reduced models are not applicable. This has important implications for studies of particle heating and acceleration in magnetic plasma turbulence. The goal of this work is to systematically investigate the relationship between local magnetic field variations and magnetic energy dissipation, and to understand its implications for modelling energy dissipation in realistic turbulent plasmas. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The authors thank the referee, Alexander Schekochihin,
for helpful comments. VZ acknowledges support from NSF
grant AST-1411879. SB is partly supported by the National
Science Foundation under the grant NSF AGS-1261659 and
by the Vilas Associates Award from the University of Wis-
consin - Madison. JM acknowledges the support of the
EPSRC, through grant EP/M004546/1. We acknowledge
PRACE for awarding us access to resource FERMI based
in Italy at CINECA, and the STFC DiRAC HPC Facility
for access to the COSMA Data Centric system at Durham
University and MINERVA at the University of Warwick. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 468 (4), pp. 4025-4029 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/mnras/stx611 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/28581 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) / Royal Astronomical Society | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society | en_GB |
dc.subject | turbulence | en_GB |
dc.subject | plasmas | en_GB |
dc.subject | MHD | en_GB |
dc.subject | magnetic elds | en_GB |
dc.title | Influence of a large-scale field on energy dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-24T08:19:33Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-8711 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1365-2966 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | en_GB |