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Rodion Stepanov1, Franck Plunian2, Mouloud Kessar3
1Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Korolyov Street 1, 614013 Perm, Russia and Department of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Komsomolskii Avenue 29, 614990 Perm, Russia.
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, 15, and 19. We claim that these kinks have no physical meaning and are in fact the signature of the method that is used to estimate E(k) from a three-dimensional 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.
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