Subcritical Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
- 2 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (10) , 1098-1101
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.1098
Abstract
Numerical simulations of a simple model for ideal magnetohydrodynamic modes have shown stationary turbulence and transport at values substantially below the critical required for linear instability. The phenomena appears to be similar to subcritical turbulence in plane-parallel pipe flow.
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