Random walk of magnetic field-lines for different values of the energy range spectral index

A. Shalchi, I. Kourakis

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Abstract

An analytical nonlinear description of field-line wandering in partially statistically magnetic systems was proposed recently. In this article the influence of the wave spectrum in the energy range onto field-line random walk is investigated by applying this formulation. It is demonstrated that in all considered cases we clearly obtain a superdiffusive behavior of the field-lines. If the energy range spectral index exceeds unity a free-streaming behavior of the field-lines can be found for all relevant length-scales of turbulence. Since the superdiffusive results obtained for the slab model are exact, it seems that superdiffusion is the normal behavior of field-line wandering.

Original languageBritish English
Article number112901
JournalPhysics of Plasmas
Volume14
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007

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