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View SchemaStatistical anisotropy of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
| Authors | Wolf-Christian Mueller, Dieter Biskamp, Roland Grappin |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0306045 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0306045 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.67.066302 |
Abstract
Direct numerical simulations of decaying and forced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence without and with mean magnetic field are analyzed by higher-order two-point statistics. The turbulence exhibits statistical anisotropy with respect to the direction of the local magnetic field even in the case of global isotropy. A mean magnetic field reduces the parallel-field dynamics while in the perpendicular direction a gradual transition towards two-dimensional MHD turbulence is observed with $k^{-3/2}$ inertial-range scaling of the perpendicular energy spectrum. An intermittency model based on the Log-Poisson approach, $\zeta_p=p/g^2 +1 -(1/g)^{p/g}$, is able to describe the observed structure function scalings.
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