Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
2011-05-26
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
17 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review E
Scientific paper
This study shows the connection between three previously observed but seemingly unrelated phenomena in hydrodynamic (HD) and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent flows, involving the emergence of fluctuations occurring on very long time scales: the low-frequency 1/f noise in the power frequency spectrum, the delayed ergodicity of complex valued amplitude fluctuations in wavenumber space, and the spontaneous flippings or reversals of large scale fields. Direct numerical simulations of ideal MHD and HD are employed in three space dimensions, at low resolution, for long periods of time, and with high accuracy to study several cases: Different geometries, presence of rotation and/or a uniform magnetic field, and different values of the associated conserved global quantities. It is conjectured that the origin of all these long-time phenomena is rooted in the interaction of the longest wavelength fluctuations available to the system with fluctuations at much smaller scales. The strength of this non-local interaction is controlled either by the existence of conserved global quantities with a back-transfer in Fourier space, or by the presence of a slow manifold in the dynamics.
Dmitruk Pablo
Matthaeus William H.
Mininni Pablo Daniel
Pouquet Annick
Servidio Sergio
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