Study of weak Alfvenic turbulence

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Abstract

We report a study of weak incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the presence of a strong guide magnetic field. Such turbulence consists of weakly interacting Alfven waves propagating in opposite directions along the guide field. We consider both balanced and imbalanced turbulence. The imbalanced case is the case when the energies of counter-propagating Alfven waves are unequal. In this case we discuss the role of the so-called ``condensate,'' that is, the nonlinear magnetic fluctuations at $k_\|=0$ on the spectrum and structure of turbulence.

*Supported by the NSF Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas at UW Madison, and by the Deparment of Energy under grants DE-FG02-07ER54932, DE-SC0001794, and DE-SC0003888.

Authors

  • Yuxuan Wang

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Stanislav Boldyrev

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • UW-Madison
    • University of Wisconsin -- Madison