Elastic Alfven waves in elastic turbulence

Atul Varshney; Victor Steinberg

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08551-0

Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Elastic Alfven waves in elastic turbulence

Atul Varshney,
Victor Steinberg

Affiliations

Atul Varshney: Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science
Victor Steinberg: Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08551-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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An analog of Alfven waves in plasma with velocity set by magnetic tension has been predicted to appear in elastic turbulence. Here the authors observe elastic Alfven waves in elastic turbulence of polymer solution flow between two obstacles where the velocity is defined by elastic stress.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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