Weak- and strong-turbulence regimes of the forced Hasegawa-Mima equation
- 16 November 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 69 (20) , 2923-2926
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.69.2923
Abstract
A Kolmogorov-type analysis of the energy- and enstrophy-cascading ranges of a forced Hasegawa-Mima equation allows one to derive a criterion for the threshold of the transition between the weak-turbulence and the strong-turbulence regimes. Contrary to general belief, it is found that due to the inverse energy cascade the large-scale portion of the inertial range is in the strong-turbulence regime in the limit of infinite Reynolds-like numbers for any finite amount of forcing.Keywords
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