Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-07-02
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 083009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Expanded version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.083009
We analyze the decay laws of the kinetic and magnetic energies and the evolution of correlation lengths in freely decaying incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Scale invariance of MHD equations assures that, in the case of constant dissipation parameters ({\it i.e.} kinematic viscosity and resistivity) and null magnetic helicity, the kinetic and magnetic energies decay in time as $E \sim t^{-1}$, and the correlation lengths evolve as $\xi \sim t^{1/2}$. In the helical case, assuming that the magnetic field evolve towards a force-free state, we show that (in the limit of large magnetic Reynolds number) the magnetic helicity remains constant, the kinetic and magnetic energies decay as $E_v \sim t^{-1}$ and $E_B \sim t^{-1/2}$ respectively, while both the kinetic and magnetic correlation lengths grow as $\xi \sim t^{1/2}$.
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