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磁流体动力学Turbulence中的能量耗散:相干结构还是“纳米片”?

Energy Dissipation in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Coherent Structures or "Nanoflares"?

Vladimir Zhdankin, Stanislav Boldyrev, Jean Carlos Perez, Steven M. Tobias

摘要:

通过识别耗散结构和测量其特征尺度,研究了磁流体动力学(MHD)湍流中能量耗散的不稳定性。我们发现能量耗散率的概率分布呈现指数非常接近临界值-2.0的幂律尾部,这表明所有强度的结构对能量耗散的贡献是相等的。我们发现,能量耗散均匀分布在长度和宽度在惯性范围内的相干结构。与此同时,这些结构的厚度在耗散区很深。随着雷诺数的增加,结构变得更薄和更多,而能量耗散继续主要发生在大尺度相干结构中。这意味着,在高雷诺数的限制,能量耗散发生在薄的,紧密包装的电流片,但跨越连续的规模高达系统的大小,表现出的相干结构和nanoflares的功能,以前作为一个日冕加热机制。

英文摘要:

We investigate the intermittency of energy dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence by identifying dissipative structures and measuring their characteristic scales. We find that the probability distribution of energy dissipation rates exhibits a power law tail with index very close to the critical value of -2.0, which indicates that structures of all intensities contribute equally to energy dissipation. We find that energy dissipation is uniformly spread among coherent structures with lengths and widths in the inertial range. At the same time, these structures have thicknesses deep within the dissipative regime. As the Reynolds number is increased, structures become thinner and more numerous, while the energy dissipation continues to occur mainly in large-scale coherent structures. This implies that in the limit of high Reynolds number, energy dissipation occurs in thin, tightly packed current sheets which nevertheless span a continuum of scales up to the system size, exhibiting features of both coherent structures and nanoflares previously conjectured as a coronal heating mechanism.

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