Role of Magnetic Reconnection in MHD Turbulence

Loureiro, Nuno F.; Boldyrev, Stanislav

doi:10.7910/DVN/EQQXUB

Title: Role of Magnetic Reconnection in MHD Turbulence

Abstract

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 ...

Authors:: Loureiro, Nuno F.; Boldyrev, Stanislav

Publication Date:: 2019-01-10

DOE Contract Number:: SC0016215

Research Org.:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

OSTI Identifier:: 1880994

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EQQXUB

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                    Loureiro, Nuno F., and Boldyrev, Stanislav. 2019.  
"Role of Magnetic Reconnection in MHD Turbulence".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EQQXUB.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1880994. Pub date:Thu Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2019

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Role of Magnetic Reconnection in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
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Physical Review Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 24
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