Dissipation-scale turbulence in the solar wind

We present a cascade model for turbulence in weakly collisional plasmas that follows the nonlinear cascade of energy from the large scales of driving in the MHD regime to the small scales of the kinetic Alfvén wave regime where the turbulence is dissipated by kinetic processes. Steady-state solution...

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Main Authors: Howes, G, Cowley, S, Dorland, W, Hammett, G, Quataert, E, Schekochihin, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2007