Spectrum of weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Details Spectrum of weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Spectrum of weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

2009-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/0907.4475v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 225001 (2009)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.225001

Turbulence of magnetohydrodynamic waves in nature and in the laboratory is generally cross-helical or non-balanced, in that the energies of Afv\'en waves moving in opposite directions along the guide magnetic field are unequal. Based on high-resolution numerical simulations it is proposed that such turbulence spontaneously generates a condensate of the residual energy $E_v-E_b$ at small field-parallel wave numbers. As a result, the energy spectra of counter-propagating Alfv\'en waves are not scale-invariant. In the limit of infinite Reynolds number, the universality is asymptotically restored at large wave numbers, and both spectra attain the scaling $E(k)\propto k_{\perp}^{-2}$. The generation of condensate is apparently related to the breakdown of mirror symmetry in non-balanced turbulence.

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