Artículos de revistas
Reduced MHD in Astrophysical Applications: Two-dimensional or Three-dimensional?
Fecha
2017-04Registro en:
Oughton, S.; Matthaeus, W. H.; Dmitruk, Pablo Ariel; Reduced MHD in Astrophysical Applications: Two-dimensional or Three-dimensional?; IOP Publishing; Astrophysical Journal; 839; 2; 4-2017; 1-13
0004-637X
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Oughton, S.
Matthaeus, W. H.
Dmitruk, Pablo Ariel
Resumen
Originally proposed as an efficient approach to computation of nonlinear dynamics in tokamak fusion research devices, reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) has subsequently found application in studies of coronal heating, flux tube dynamics, charged particle transport, and, in general, as an approximation to describe plasma turbulence in space physics and astrophysics. Given the diverse set of derivations available in the literature, there has emerged some level of discussion and a lack of consensus regarding the completeness of RMHD as a turbulence model, and its applicability in contexts such as the solar wind. Some of the key issues in this discussion are examined here, emphasizing that RMHD is properly neither 2D nor fully 3D, being rather an incomplete representation that enforces at least one family of extraneous conservation laws.