Small-scale structure of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Abstract
The formation of singularities in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flow is investigated by direct numerical simulation. It is shown that two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is not as singular as three-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence (in the sense that it has a less highly excited small-scale structure) but that it is more singular than two-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence.
- Publication:
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Pub Date:
- January 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S002211207900210X
- Bibcode:
- 1979JFM....90..129O
- Keywords:
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- Digital Simulation;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence;
- Small Perturbation Flow;
- Two Dimensional Flow;
- Equations Of Motion;
- Incompressible Fluids;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Three Dimensional Flow;
- Vortices;
- Plasma Physics