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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.3693974
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- International Space Science Institute in Bern
- NSF [AGS-1054061, PHY-10033446]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [1054061] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A numerical simulation of kinetic plasma turbulence is performed to assess the applicability of critical balance to kinetic, dissipation scale turbulence. The analysis is performed in the frequency domain to obviate complications inherent in performing a local analysis of turbulence. A theoretical model of dissipation scale critical balance is constructed and compared to simulation results, and excellent agreement is found. This result constitutes the first evidence of critical balance in a kinetic turbulence simulation and provides evidence of an anisotropic turbulence cascade extending into the dissipation range. We also perform an Eulerian frequency analysis of the simulation data and compare it to the results of a previous study of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence simulations. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3693974]
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