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  1. Finite Reynolds number effect on substantial inertial range in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, October 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  2. Estimation of Effective Viscosity to Quantify Collisional Behavior in Collisionless Plasma

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, October 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Sean Oughton

  3. Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and the associated spatial diffusion tensor of cosmic rays in dynamical galactic halos

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, July 2025, EDP Sciences

    Dr Sean Oughton

  4. Measuring the turbulent energy cascade rate with multiple spacecraft

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Sean Oughton

  5. Constraining Solar Wind Transport Model Parameters Using Bayesian Analysis

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, January 2025, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Sean Oughton

  6. Energy flux decomposition in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Sean Oughton

  7. What is the Reynolds Number of the Solar Wind?

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, January 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Sean Oughton

  8. A Three-dimensional Model for the Evolution of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Outer Heliosphere

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, August 2023, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Sean Oughton

  9. New exact Betchov-like relation for the helicity flux in homogeneous turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Sean Oughton

  10. Strategies for Determining the Cascade Rate in MHD Turbulence: Isotropy, Anisotropy, and Spacecraft Sampling

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, September 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Sean Oughton

  11. Turbulence in the Outer Heliosphere

    Article • Space Science Reviews, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sean Oughton

  12. On the Generation of Compressible Mirror-mode Fluctuations in the Inner Heliosheath

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, September 2020, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Sean Oughton

  13. Critical Balance and the Physics of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, June 2020, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Sean Oughton

  14. A detailed examination of anisotropy and timescales in three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, June 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  15. Evolution of similarity lengths in anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Sean Oughton

  16. Reduced MHD in Astrophysical Applications: Two-dimensional or Three-dimensional?

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, April 2017, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Sean Oughton

  17. A GENERALIZED TWO-COMPONENT MODEL OF SOLAR WIND TURBULENCE AND AB INITIO DIFFUSION MEAN-FREE PATHS AND DRIFT LENGTHSCALES OF COSMIC RAYS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, December 2016, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Sean Oughton

  18. VARIANCE ANISOTROPY IN KINETIC PLASMAS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, June 2016, American Astronomical Society

    Dr Sean Oughton

  19. Variance anisotropy in compressible 3-D MHD

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, June 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  20. Intermittency, nonlinear dynamics and dissipation in the solar wind and astrophysical plasmas

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, April 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    William H Matthaeus, Dr Sean Oughton

  21. Anisotropy in solar wind plasma turbulence

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, April 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  22. DISSIPATION AND RECONNECTION IN BOUNDARY-DRIVEN REDUCED MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, November 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  23. NONLINEAR AND LINEAR TIMESCALES NEAR KINETIC SCALES IN SOLAR WIND TURBULENCE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, July 2014, American Astronomical Society

    Professor Sandra Catherine Chapman, Dr Sean Oughton

  24. COMPLEXITY AND DIFFUSION OF MAGNETIC FLUX SURFACES IN ANISOTROPIC TURBULENCE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, March 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  25. MAGNETIC FIELD LINE RANDOM WALK IN MODELS AND SIMULATIONS OF REDUCED MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC TURBULENCE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, November 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  26. ON THE ORIGIN OF ANISOTROPY IN MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC TURBULENCE: THE ROLE OF HIGHER-ORDER CORRELATIONS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, April 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  27. Generation of X-points and secondary islands in 2D magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, April 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  28. Solar wind fluctuations and the von Kármán–Howarth equations: The role of fourth-order correlations

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  29. Scaling anisotropy of the power in parallel and perpendicular components of the solar wind magnetic field

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  30. LOCAL ANISOTROPY, HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS, AND TURBULENCE SPECTRA

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, April 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  31. von Kármán self-preservation hypothesis for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and its consequences for universality

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Sean Oughton

  32. POWER ANISOTROPY IN THE MAGNETIC FIELD POWER SPECTRAL TENSOR OF SOLAR WIND TURBULENCE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, January 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  33. INVESTIGATION OF INTERMITTENCY IN MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS AND SOLAR WIND TURBULENCE: SCALE-DEPENDENT KURTOSIS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, December 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  34. DIRECTIONAL ALIGNMENT AND NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS IN SOLAR WIND TURBULENCE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, October 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  35. Transport of solar wind fluctuations: A two-component model

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  36. Nonlocality and the critical Reynolds numbers of the minimum state magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, July 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  37. On the accuracy of simulations of turbulence

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, August 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  38. The third-order law for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with shear: Numerical investigation

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  39. The third-order law for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with constant shear

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  40. Statistical properties of solar wind discontinuities, intermittent turbulence, and rapid emergence of non-Gaussian distributions

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  41. Solar Wind Turbulent Heating by Interstellar Pickup Protons: 2-Component Model

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  42. Heating of the solar wind with electron and proton effects

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  43. A Two-component Transport Model for Solar Wind Fluctuations: Waves plus Quasi-2D Turbulence

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  44. A TURBULENCE-DRIVEN MODEL FOR HEATING AND ACCELERATION OF THE FAST WIND IN CORONAL HOLES

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, December 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  45. The third-order law for increments in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with constant shear

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, September 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  46. Electron and proton heating by solar wind turbulence

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2009, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  47. Generation of non-Gaussian statistics and coherent structures in ideal magnetohydrodynamics

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, August 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  48. Anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic spectral transfer in the diffusion approximation

    Article • Physical Review E, March 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  49. Anisotropic Scaling of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  50. Turbulence transport throughout the heliosphere

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  51. The impact of small-scale turbulence on laminar magnetic reconnection

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, March 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  52. A two-component phenomenology for homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, April 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  53. Propagation and dissipation of Alfvén waves in stellar atmospheres permeated by isothermal winds

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, November 2005, EDP Sciences

    Dr Sean Oughton

  54. Spacecraft observations of solar wind turbulence: an overview

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  55. Direct comparisons of compressible magnetohydrodynamics and reduced magnetohydrodynamics turbulence

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, November 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  56. Radial evolution of cross helicity in high-latitude solar wind

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2005, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  57. Transport of cross helicity and radial evolution of Alfvénicity in the solar wind

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2004, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  58. Reduced magnetohydrodynamics and parallel spectral transfer

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  59. Impact of Hall effect on energy decay in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  60. Coronal Heating Distribution Due to Low‐Frequency, Wave‐driven Turbulence

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, August 2002, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  61. What can we infer about the underlying physics from burst distributions observed in an RMHD simulation?

    Article • Planetary and Space Science, October 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Sean Oughton

  62. Heating of the low-latitude solar wind by dissipation of turbulent magnetic fluctuations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2001, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  63. Conditions for sustainment of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence driven by Alfvén waves

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  64. A Reduced Magnetohydrodynamic Model of Coronal Heating in Open Magnetic Regions Driven by Reflected Low‐Frequency Alfven Waves

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, April 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  65. Complexity in astroplasmas

    Article • Astronomy & Geophysics, April 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  66. Kinetic helicity and MHD turbulence

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, August 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Sean Oughton

  67. MHD‐driven Kinetic Dissipation in the Solar Wind and Corona

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, July 2000, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  68. Coronal Heating by Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Driven by Reflected Low-Frequency Waves

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, September 1999, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sean Oughton

  69. Turbulence, Spatial Transport, and Heating of the Solar Wind

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  70. Article • Space Science Reviews, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sean Oughton

  71. Scaling of spectral anisotropy with magnetic field strength in decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, December 1998, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  72. Scaling of Anisotropy in Hydromagnetic Turbulence

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  73. Dynamical age of solar wind turbulence in the outer heliosphere

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 1998, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  74. Energy dynamics in linear MHD with ion parallel viscosity

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, October 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Sean Oughton

  75. General second-rank correlation tensors for homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • September 1997, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  76. Anisotropic three-dimensional MHD turbulence

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 1996, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  77. Phenomenology for the decay of energy‐containing eddies in homogeneous MHD turbulence

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 1995, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  78. Magnetic helicity in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with a mean magnetic field

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 1995, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  79. Linear transport of solar wind fluctuations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 1995, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  80. Reply [to “Comment on ‘Evolution of energy-containing turbulent eddies in the solar wind’ by W. H. Matthaeus, S. Oughton, D. H. Pontius Jr., and Y. Zhou”]

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 1995, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  81. The influence of a mean magnetic field on three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, December 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Sean Oughton

  82. Transport theory and the WKB approximation for interplanetary MHD fluctuations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 1994, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  83. Evolution of energy-containing turbulent eddies in the solar wind

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 1994, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  84. Relaxation in two dimensions and the ‘‘sinh‐Poisson’’ equation

    Article • Physics of Fluids A Fluid Dynamics, January 1992, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Sean Oughton

  85. Properties of mass-loading shocks, 2. Magnetohydrodynamics

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 1992, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  86. Mass-loading and parallel magnetized shocks

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 1991, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  87. Decaying, two-dimensional, Navier-Stokes turbulence at very long times

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, August 1991, Elsevier

    Dr Sean Oughton

  88. Selective decay and coherent vortices in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 1991, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sean Oughton

  89. Properties of mass-loading shocks: 1. Hydrodynamic considerations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 1991, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sean Oughton