Evolution of similarity lengths in anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.513zbMATH Open1419.76702OpenAlexW3101924763MaRDI QIDQ5229936FDOQ5229936

Authors Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, S. Oughton, Minping Wan, W. H. Matthaeus

Publication date 19 August 2019

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07764

zbMATH Keywords

MHD turbulencehomogeneous turbulenceturbulence theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05)

Abstract: In an earlier paper (Wan et al. 2012), the authors showed that a similarity solution for anisotropic incompressible 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, in the presence of a uniform mean magnetic field $v{B}_0$, exists if the ratio of parallel to perpendicular (with respect to $v{B}_0$) similarity length scales remains constant in time. This conjecture appears to be a rather stringent constraint on the dynamics of decay of the energy-containing eddies in MHD turbulence. However, we show here, using direct numerical simulations, that this hypothesis is indeed satisfied in incompressible MHD turbulence. After an initial transient period, the ratio of parallel to perpendicular length scales fluctuates around a steady value during the decay of the eddies. We show further that a Taylor--K'arm'an-like similarity decay holds for MHD turbulence in the presence of a mean magnetic field. The effect of different parameters, including Reynolds number, DC field strength, and cross-helicity, on the nature of similarity decay is discussed.

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