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Title: Impulsive events in the evolution of a forced nonlinear system

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters; (United States)
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  1. Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (United States)

Long-time numerical solutions of a low-dimensional model of the reduced MHD equations show that, when this system is driven quasistatically, the response is punctuated by impulsive events. The statistics of these events indicate a Poisson process; the frequency of these events scales as {Delta}{ital E}{sub {ital M}}{sup {minus}1}, where {Delta}{ital E}{sub {ital M}} is the energy released in one event.

OSTI ID:
7234491
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 68:11; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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