Theory of Strongly Turbulent Two-Dimensional Convection of Low-Pressure Plasma
- 25 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 38 (17) , 966-970
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.38.966
Abstract
The "direct interaction approximation" of Kraichnan as modified by Kadomtsev is employed to develop a strong turbulence theory which predicts both nonlinear frequency broadening and a power law for the spectrum of a two-dimensional convecting plasma.Keywords
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