Weck, PJ;
Schaffner, DA;
Brown, MR;
Wicks, RT;
(2015)
Permutation entropy and statistical complexity analysis of turbulence in laboratory plasmas and the solar wind.
Physical Review E
, 91
(2)
, Article 023101. 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.023101.
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Abstract
The Bandt-Pompe permutation entropy and the Jensen-Shannon statistical complexity are used to analyze fluctuating time series of three different turbulent plasmas: the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the plasma wind tunnel of the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment (SSX), drift-wave turbulence of ion saturation current fluctuations in the edge of the Large Plasma Device (LAPD), and fully developed turbulent magnetic fluctuations of the solar wind taken from the Wind spacecraft. The entropy and complexity values are presented as coordinates on the CH plane for comparison among the different plasma environments and other fluctuation models. The solar wind is found to have the highest permutation entropy and lowest statistical complexity of the three data sets analyzed. Both laboratory data sets have larger values of statistical complexity, suggesting that these systems have fewer degrees of freedom in their fluctuations, with SSX magnetic fluctuations having slightly less complexity than the LAPD edge Isat. The CH plane coordinates are compared to the shape and distribution of a spectral decomposition of the wave forms. These results suggest that fully developed turbulence (solar wind) occupies the lower-right region of the CH plane, and that other plasma systems considered to be turbulent have less permutation entropy and more statistical complexity. This paper presents use of this statistical analysis tool on solar wind plasma, as well as on an MHD turbulent experimental plasma.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Permutation entropy and statistical complexity analysis of turbulence in laboratory plasmas and the solar wind |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.023101 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.023101 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | ©2015 American Physical Society |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics > Advanced Instrumentation Systems |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1468446 |
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