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Reconnection-controlled decay of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and the role of invariants
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We present a new theoretical picture of magnetically dominated, decaying turbulence in the absence of a mean magnetic field. With direct numerical simulations, we demonstrate that the rate of turbulent decay is governed by the reconnection of magnetic structures, and not necessarily by ideal dynamics, as has previously been assumed. We obtain predictions for the magnetic-energy-decay laws by proposing that turbulence decays on reconnection timescales while respecting the conservation of certa...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Physical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PRX Quantum Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 4
- Article number:
- 041005
- Publication date:
- 2021-10-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-08-10
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2691-3399
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1148375
- Local pid:
- pubs:1148375
- Deposit date:
- 2021-07-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Hosking and Schekochihin
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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