Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-03-21
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
42 pages, 2 figures, latex
Scientific paper
The dynamic renormalization group (RG) is used to study the large-distance and long-time limits of viscous and resistive incompressible magnetohydrodynamics subject to random forces and currents. The scale-dependent viscosity and magnetic resistivity are derived and used for carrying out RG-improved perturbation theory. This is applied to derive both the asymptotic scaling and the overall proportionality coefficients for both the velocity and magnetic field correlation functions as well as the kinetic and magnetic energy density spectral functions. The Kolmogorov, Iroshnikov-Kraichnan, as well as other energy spectra, formally can be obtained by suitable choice of injected noise, although the method limits the validity of these energy spectra only to the asymptotic regime . Injection of a random magnetic helicity is considered, its RG-improved spectral density derived, and its contribution to the velocity and magnetic field correlation functions determined. The RG scaling solutions are used to determine information at asymptotic scales about energy and helicity cascade directions and mixing between magnetic and kinetic energy. Some of the results found here also are shown to be valid for the Navier-Stokes hydrodynamic equation. The results have applicability to geomagnetism as well as cosmic magnetic fields at astrophysical and cosmological scales.
Berera Arjun
Hochberg David
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