Understanding Nonlinear Cascades in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence by Statistical Closure Theory

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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It is shown that supposedly universal scaling relations between second-order statistical moments of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence can be found with the help of the eddy-damped quasi-normal statistical closure theory (EDQNM). As an example, the inertial range scaling behaviour of the spectrum of magnetic helicity in direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence driven at small scales is theoretically studied. Using a hypothesis of dynamical equilibrium the inertial range spectrum is found to depend on various quantities: kinetic and magnetic energy as well as kinetic helicity. The influence of kinetic helicity explains numerical results that are in apparent contradiction to previous theoretical and numerical work. A similar approach towards the residual energy spectrum in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is also touched upon.

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