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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.2209232
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The difference between the kinetic and magnetic energies in a conducting fluid is investigated in the framework of magnetohydrodynamics. The deviation from equipartition is measured by the turbulent residual energy K-R. With the aid of the two-scale direct-interaction approximation, a statistical analytical theory for inhomogeneous turbulence, expressions for the correlation tensors appearing in the evolution equation for the residual energy are derived. Using these results, we propose a model equation for K-R evolution. Examination of the structure of this equation shows that the evolution of the scaled residual energy is related to the cross helicity (velocity-magnetic-field correlation) of turbulence coupled with the mean-field shears. An application to the solar wind shows that the scaled parallel to K-R parallel to can be increased near the outside of the Alfven point in the inner heliosphere whereas the almost stationary behavior of parallel to K-R parallel to is suggested in the outer heliosphere. These results are consistent with observations of solar-wind turbulence.
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