Dynamic Alignment in Driven Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

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2006-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602382v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255002 (2006)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, minor changes to match published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.255002

Motivated by recent analytic predictions, we report numerical evidence showing that in driven incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence the magnetic- and velocity-field fluctuations locally tend to align the directions of their polarizations. This dynamic alignment is stronger at smaller scales with the angular mismatch between the polarizations decreasing with the scale \lambda approximately as \theta_\lambda ~ \lambda^{1/4}. This can naturally lead to a weakening of the nonlinear interactions and provide an explanation for the energy spectrum E(k) ~ k^{-3/2} that is observed in numerical experiments of strongly magnetized turbulence.

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