Role of Magnetic Reconnection in MHD Turbulence
- OSTI
The current understanding of MHD turbulence envisions turbulent eddies which are anisotropic in all three directions. In the plane perpendicular to the local mean magnetic field, this implies that such eddies become current-sheet-like structures at small scales. We analyze the role of magnetic reconnection in these structures and conclude that reconnection becomes important at a scale ... This scale is larger than the scale set by the resistive diffusion of eddies, therefore implying a fundamentally different route to energy dissipation than that predicted by the Kolmogorov-like phenomenology. In particular, our analysis predicts the existence of the sub-inertial, reconnection interval of MHD turbulence ...
- Research Organization:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0016215
- OSTI ID:
- 1880994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Role of Magnetic Reconnection in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
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journal | June 2017 |
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