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Intermittency and Alignment in Strong RMHD Turbulence

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arxiv 1403.6354 v1 pith:Y7FQMCZA submitted 2014-03-25 astro-ph.SR physics.space-ph

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We develop an analytic model of intermittent, three-dimensional, strong, reduced magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with zero cross helicity. We take the fluctuation amplitudes to have a log-Poisson distribution and incorporate into the model a new phenomenology of scale-dependent dynamic alignment. The log-Poisson distribution in our model is characterized by two parameters. To calculate these parameters, we make use of three assumptions: that the energy cascade rate is independent of scale within the inertial range, that the most intense coherent structures at scale $\lambda$ are sheet-like with a volume filling factor proportional to $\lambda$, and that most of the cascade power arises from interactions between exceptionally intense fluctuations and much weaker fluctuations. We then compute the scalings of the power spectrum, the kurtosis, higher-order structure functions, and three different average alignment angles. These scalings appear to be consistent with numerous results from direct numerical simulations.

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