<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/nlm-dtd/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd">
<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en">
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">NPG</journal-id>
<journal-title-group>
<journal-title>Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">NPG</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Nonlin. Processes Geophys.</abbrev-journal-title>
</journal-title-group>
<issn pub-type="epub">1607-7946</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/npg-3-247-1996</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Solar wind low-frequency magnetohydrodynamic turbulence: extended self-similarity and scaling laws</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Carbone</surname>
<given-names>V.</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Veltri</surname>
<given-names>P.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bruno</surname>
<given-names>R.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
</contrib-group><aff id="aff1">
<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá della Calabria, 87036 Roges di Rende, Italy</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario / CNR c.p. 00044 Frascati, Italy</addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>31</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>1996</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>3</volume>
<issue>4</issue>
<fpage>247</fpage>
<lpage>261</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 1996 V. Carbone et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1996</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/</ext-link></license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<self-uri xlink:href="https://npg.copernicus.org/articles/3/247/1996/npg-3-247-1996.html">This article is available from https://npg.copernicus.org/articles/3/247/1996/npg-3-247-1996.html</self-uri>
<self-uri xlink:href="https://npg.copernicus.org/articles/3/247/1996/npg-3-247-1996.pdf">The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://npg.copernicus.org/articles/3/247/1996/npg-3-247-1996.pdf</self-uri>
<abstract>
<p>In this paper  we review  some of the

work done in
          investigating  the  scaling properties  of 
Magnetohydrodynamic
          turbulence,   by   using  velocity   fluctuations 
measurements
          performed  in the  interplanetary space  plasma  by the 
Helios
          spacecraft.   The  set  of scaling  exponents ξ&lt;i&gt;&lt;sub&gt;q&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
          for  the &lt;I&gt;q&lt;/I&gt;-th
          order velocity  structure functions,  have  been
determined  by
          using the Extended  Self-Similarity hypothesis.  We have

found
          that the &lt;I&gt;q&lt;/I&gt;-th  order velocity structure function,
when  plotted
          vs.  the 4-th  order  structure function,  displays a 
range of
          self-similarity which extends  over all the lengths
covered  by
          measurements, thus  allowing for a  very good
determination  of ξ&lt;i&gt;&lt;sub&gt;q&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.  Moreover  the  results  seem  to 
show  that  the  scaling
          exponents  are  the  same  regardless  the  various
observation
          periods considered.   The obtained scaling exponents
have  been
          compared  with the  results of  some  intermittency
models  for
          Kraichnan&apos;s  turbulence, derived in the framework of
infinitely
          divisible fragmentation processes, showing  the good 
agreement
          between  these models  and our  observations.   Finally,
on the
          basis  of  the  actually  available  data  sets,  we 
show that
          scaling  laws in  Solar Wind  turbulence seem  to  be
different
          from turbulent scaling laws  in the ordinary fluid
flows.  This
          is  true  for high-order  velocity  structure 
functions, while
          low-order velocity  structure functions  show the  same
scaling
          laws.   Since  our  measurements  involve length  scales

which
          extend  over  many  order of  magnitude  where 
dissipation  is
          practically   absent,  our   results  show   that  Solar

 Wind
          turbulence   can  be  regarded  as  a  testing  bench 
for  the
          investigation of general scaling behaviour in turbulent 
flows.
          In particular our results  strongly support the  point
of  view
          which attributes a key role  to the inertial range 
dynamics in
          determining the  intermittency characteristics  in fluid
flows,
          in  contrast   with  the   point  of   view  which  
attributes
          intermittency to a finite Reynolds number effect.</p>
</abstract>
<counts><page-count count="15"/></counts>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body/>
<back>
</back>
</article>