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阿尔芬波碰撞--等离子体Turbulence IV的基本组成部分:实验室实验

Alfven Wave Collisions, The Fundamental Building Block of Plasma Turbulence IV: Laboratory Experiment

D. J. Drake, J. W. R. Schroeder, G. G. Howes, C. A. Kletzing, F. Skiff, T. A. Carter, D. W. Auerbach

摘要:

湍流是在整个空间和天体物理等离子体中发现的一种现象。它在太阳日冕加热、太阳风加速和星际介质加热中起着重要作用。在这些制度的湍流是占主导地位的阿尔芬波。大多数湍流理论都是使用理想等离子体模型建立的,例如不可压缩MHD。然而,一直没有实验证据来支持使用这种模型的弱到中度碰撞等离子体是相关的各种空间和天体物理等离子体环境。我们提出了第一个实验来测量两个反向传播的阿尔芬波,这是天体物理学湍流理论的基石之间的非线性相互作用。我们在这里提出了四个不同的测试,最终证明,我们确实测量的子阿尔芬波产生的非线性的碰撞之间的反向传播阿尔芬波。

英文摘要:

Turbulence is a phenomenon found throughout space and astrophysical plasmas. It plays an important role in solar coronal heating, acceleration of the solar wind, and heating of the interstellar medium. Turbulence in these regimes is dominated by Alfven waves. Most turbulence theories have been established using ideal plasma models, such as incompressible MHD. However, there has been no experimental evidence to support the use of such models for weakly to moderately collisional plasmas which are relevant to various space and astrophysical plasma environments. We present the first experiment to measure the nonlinear interaction between two counterpropagating Alfven waves, which is the building block for astrophysical turbulence theories. We present here four distinct tests that demonstrate conclusively that we have indeed measured the daughter Alfven wave generated nonlinearly by a collision between counterpropagating Alfven waves.

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