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Magnetic field line random walk in two-dimensional dynamical turbulence

  • J. F. Wang*
  • , G. Qin
  • , Q. M. Ma
  • , T. Song
  • , S. B. Yuan
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The field line random walk (FLRW) of magnetic turbulence is one of the important topics in plasma physics and astrophysics. In this article, by using the field line tracing method, the mean square displacement (MSD) of FLRW is calculated on all possible length scales for pure two-dimensional turbulence with the damping dynamical model. We demonstrate that in order to describe FLRW with the damping dynamical model, a new dimensionless quantity R is needed to be introduced. On different length scales, dimensionless MSD shows different relationships with the dimensionless quantity R. Although the temporal effect affects the MSD of FLRW and even changes regimes of FLRW, it does not affect the relationship between the dimensionless MSD and dimensionless quantity R on all possible length scales.

Original languageEnglish
Article number082901
JournalPhysics of Plasmas
Volume24
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2017
Externally publishedYes

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