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Anisotropic fluxes and nonlocal interactions in MHD turbulence
We investigate the locality or nonlocality of the energy transfer and of the
spectral interactions involved in the cascade for decaying magnetohydrodynamic
(MHD) flows in the presence of a uniform magnetic field at various
intensities. The results are based on a detailed analysis of three-dimensional
numerical flows at moderate Reynold numbers. The energy transfer functions, as
well as the global and partial fluxes, are examined by means of different
geometrical wavenumber shells. On the one hand, the transfer functions of the
two conserved Els\"asser energies and are found local in both the
directions parallel (-direction) and perpendicular (-direction)
to the magnetic guide-field, whatever the -strength. On the other
hand, from the flux analysis, the interactions between the two
counterpropagating Els\"asser waves become nonlocal. Indeed, as the -intensity is increased, local interactions are strongly decreased and the
interactions with small modes dominate the cascade. Most of the energy
flux in the -direction is due to modes in the plane at , while
the weaker cascade in the -direction is due to the modes with .
The stronger magnetized flows tends thus to get closer to the weak turbulence
limit where the three-wave resonant interactions are dominating. Hence, the
transition from the strong to the weak turbulence regime occurs by reducing the
number of effective modes in the energy cascade.Comment: Submitted to PR
Scaling properties of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
The scaling properties of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
are obtained from direct numerical simulations of decaying turbulence using
modes. The results indicate that the turbulence does not follow the
Iroshnikov-Kraichnan phenomenology.In the case of hyperresistivity, the
structure functions exhibit a clear scaling range yielding absolute values of
the scaling exponents . The scaling exponents agree with a modified
She-Leveque model , corresponding to Kolmogorov
scaling but sheet-like geometry of the dissipative structures
Non-gaussian probability distribution functions in two dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Intermittency in MHD turbulence has been analyzed using high resolution 2D
numerical simulations. We show that the Probability Distribution Functions
(PDFs) of the fluctuations of the Elsasser fields, magnetic field and velocity
field depend on the scale at hand, that is they are self-affine. The departure
of the PDFs from a Gaussian function can be described through the scaling
behavior of a single parameter lambda_r^2 obtained by fitting the PDFs with a
given curve stemming from the analysis of a multiplicative model by Castaing et
al. (1990). The scaling behavior of the parameter lambda_r^2 can be used to
extract informations about the intermittency. A comparison of intermittency
properties in different MHD turbulent flows is also performed.Comment: 7 pages, with 5 figure
The role of surface chemical reactivity in the stability of electronic nanodevices based on two-dimensional materials "beyond graphene" and topological insulators
Here, we examine the influence of surface chemical reactivity toward ambient
gases on the performance of nanodevices based on two-dimensional materials
"beyond graphene" and novel topological phases of matter. While surface
oxidation in ambient conditions was observed for silicene and phosphorene with
subsequent reduction of the mobility of charge carriers, nanodevices with
active channels of indium selenide, bismuth chalcogenides and transition-metal
dichalcogenides are stable in air. However, air-exposed indium selenide suffers
of p-type doping due to water decomposition on Se vacancies, whereas the low
mobility of charge carriers in transition-metal dichalcogenides increases the
response time of nanodevices. Conversely, bismuth chalcogenides require a
control of crystalline quality, which could represent a serious hurdle for up
scaling
A burst from a thermonuclear runaway on an ONeMg white dwarf
Studies which examine the consequences of accretion, at rates of 10(exp -9) solar mass/yr and 10(exp -10) solar mass/yr, onto an ONeMg white dwarf with a mass of 1.35 solar masses are performed. In these studies, a Lagrangian, hydrodynamic, one-dimensional computer code was used. The code now includes a network with 89 nuclei up to Ca-40, elemental diffusion, new opacities, and new equation of state. The initial abundance distribution corresponded to a mixture that was enriched to either 25, 50, or 75 percent in products of carbon burning. The remaining material in each case is assumed to have a solar composition. The evolution of the thermonuclear runaway in the 1.35 solar mass white dwarf, with M = 10(exp -9) solar mass, produced peak temperatures in the shell source exceeding 300 million degrees. The sequence produced significant amounts of Na-22 from proton captures onto Ne-20 and significant amounts of Al-26 from proton captures on Mg-24. This sequence ejected 5.2 x 10(exp -6) solar mass moving with speeds from approximately 100 km/s to 2300 km/s. When the mass accretion rate was decreased to 10(exp -10) solar mass, the resulting thermonuclear runaway produced a shock that moved through the outer envelope of the white dwarf and raised the surface luminosity to L greater than 10(exp 7) solar luminosity and the effective temperature to values exceeding 10(exp 7) K. The interaction of the material expanding from off of the white dwarf with the accretion disk should produce a burst of gamma-rays
Analysis of cancellation in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
A signed measure analysis of two-dimensional intermittent magnetohydrodynamic
turbulence is presented. This kind of analysis is performed to characterize the
scaling behavior of the sign-oscillating flow structures, and their geometrical
properties. In particular, it is observed that cancellations between positive
and negative contributions of the field inside structures, are inhibited for
scales smaller than the Taylor microscale, and stop near the dissipative scale.
Moreover, from a simple geometrical argument, the relationship between the
cancellation exponent and the typical fractal dimension of the structures in
the flow is obtained.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures (3 .jpg not included in the latex file
Decay laws for three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Decay laws for three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence are obtained
from high-resolution numerical simulations using up to 512^3 modes...
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