On the transport and concentration of enstrophy in 3D magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/26/8/2373MaRDI QIDQ2845641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zachary Bradshaw, Zoran Grujić

Publication date 2 September 2013

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3083

zbMATH Keywords

coherent structureenstrophy fluxmagnetohydrodynamic turbulence flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25)

Abstract: Working directly from the 3D magnetohydrodynamical equations and entirely in physical scales we formulate a scenario wherein the enstrophy flux exhibits cascade-like properties. In particular we show the inertially-driven transport of current and vorticity enstrophy is from larger to smaller scale structures and this inter-scale transfer is local and occurs at a nearly constant rate. This process is reminiscent of the direct cascades exhibited by certain ideal invariants in turbulent plasmas. Our results are consistent with the physically and numerically supported picture that current and vorticity concentrate on small-scale, coherent structures.

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