Impulsive events in the evolution of a forced nonlinear system
- 16 March 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (11) , 1706-1709
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.1706
Abstract
Long-time numerical solutions of a low-dimensional model of the reduced MHD equations show that, when this system is driven quasistatically, the response is punctuated by impulsive events. The statistics of these events indicate a Poisson process; the frequency of these events scales as Δ, where Δ is the energy released in one event.
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