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A systematic bias in the calculation of spectral density from a 3D spatial grid

Authors :
Stepanov, Rodion
Plunian, Franck
Kessar, Mouloud
Balarac, Guillaume
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

The energy spectral density $E(k)$, where $k$ is the spatial wave number, is a well-known diagnostic of homogeneous turbulence and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. However in most of the curves plotted by different authors, some systematic kinks can be observed at $k=9$, $k=15$ and $k=19$. We claim that these kinks have no physical meaning, and are in fact the signature of the method which is used to estimate $E(k)$ from a 3D spatial grid. In this paper we give another method, in order to get rid of the spurious kinks and to estimate $E(k)$ much more accurately.<br />Comment: 4 pages, in PRE

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics - Computational Physics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1410.8263
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.053309