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arXiv 1312.4585physics.space-ph
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快速太阳风中大尺度相关和turbulence的开始

Correlations at large scales and the onset of turbulence in the fast solar wind

Robert T. Wicks, D. Aaron Roberts, Alfred Mallet, Alexander A. Schekochihin, Timothy S. Horbury, Christopher H. K. Chen

摘要:

我们发现,在大多是高度Alfvénic快速太阳风流的磁场和速度场的结构函数的标度强烈依赖于联合分布的无量纲措施的交叉螺旋度和剩余能量。已经在非常低的频率下,更加平衡(交叉螺旋度$\sim 0$)和均匀分配(剩余能量$\sim 0$)的波动具有陡峭的结构函数,让人想起通常与惯性范围相关的“湍流”标度。以磁为主导的波动(剩余能量$\sim -1$),因此具有紧密反对齐的埃尔塞场矢量,或者不平衡的波动(交叉螺旋度$\sim 1$),因此具有紧密对齐的磁场和速度矢量,具有快速太阳风典型的宽“$1/f$”范围。我们的结论是,在流内的个别波动的非线性相互作用的强度,诊断的相关程度的方向和大小的磁场和速度波动,确定观察到的$1/f$区域的范围,从而为湍流级联的发病规模。

英文摘要:

We show that the scaling of structure functions of magnetic and velocity fields in a mostly highly Alfvénic fast solar wind stream depends strongly on the joint distribution of the dimensionless measures of cross helicity and residual energy. Already at very low frequencies, fluctuations that are both more balanced (cross helicity $\sim 0$) and equipartitioned (residual energy $\sim 0$) have steep structure functions reminiscent of "turbulent" scalings usually associated with the inertial range. Fluctuations that are magnetically dominated (residual energy $\sim -1$), and so have closely anti-aligned Elsasser-field vectors, or imbalanced (cross helicity $\sim 1$), and so have closely aligned magnetic and velocity vectors, have wide `$1/f$' ranges typical of fast solar wind. We conclude that the strength of nonlinear interactions of individual fluctuations within a stream, diagnosed by the degree of correlation in direction and magnitude of magnetic and velocity fluctuations, determines the extent of the $1/f$ region observed and thus the onset scale for the turbulent cascade.

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