GROWTH RATE OF THE INITIAL MAGNETIC ENERGY IN ISOTROPIC VELOCITY FIELD WITH NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION.

A method is proposed for including the effects of non-Gaussian velocity field distribution in the estimation of the growth rate of magnetic energy in a random flow with finite memory time. The method allows a reduction to the Gaussian case that was investigates earlier. For illustration, the multivariate Laplace distribution is considered and compared with the Gaussian one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]