Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 736, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/736/1/44
Keywords
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); solar wind; turbulence
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- Caltech [44A1085631]
- NASA [NNX08AJ19G, NNX09AG28G, NNX07AI14G, NNX10AC18G]
- NSF [ATM0850705]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [0850705] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NASA [NNX08AJ19G, NNX09AG28G, NNX10AC18G, 118539, 100198, 136174] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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We have extended the recent analyses of magnetohydrodynamic third moments as they relate to the turbulent energy cascade in the solar wind to consider the effects of large-scale shear flows. Moments from a large set of Advanced Composition Explorer data have been taken, and chosen data intervals are characterized by the rate of change in the solar wind speed. Mean dissipation rates are obtained in accordance with the predictions of homogeneous shear-driven turbulence. Agreement with predictions is best made for rarefaction intervals where the solar wind speed is decreasing with time. For decreasing speed intervals, we find that the dissipation rates increase with increasing shear magnitude and that the shear-induced fluctuation anisotropy is consistent with a relatively small amount.
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