Structure of correlation tensors in homogeneous anisotropic turbulence

Details Structure of correlation tensors in homogeneous anisotropic turbulence Structure of correlation tensors in homogeneous anisotropic turbulence

Oct 1981

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Physical Review A - General Physics, 3rd Series, vol. 24, Oct. 1981, p. 2135-2144.

Physics

General Physics

58

Cosmic Plasma, Homogeneous Turbulence, Interplanetary Medium, Plasma Turbulence, Tensors, Anisotropic Media, Correlation, Invariance, Isotropic Turbulence, Magnetic Field Configurations

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The theory of isotropic tensors, developed by Robertson (1940), Batchelor (1946), and Chandrasekhar (1951), is extended to cover the general case of turbulence with a pseudo-vector-preferred direction, without assuming mirror-reflection invariance. Attention is focused on two-point-correlation functions, and it is shown that the form of the decomposition into proper and pseudo-tensor contributions is restricted by the homogeneity requirement. The somewhat unexpected result that the vector- and pseudo-vector-preferred-direction cases yield different results is presented: A pseudo-vector-preferred direction allows the correlation matrix one more functional degree of freedom than does the proper vector case. An explicit form of the two-point-correlation tensor in the presence of a uniform mean magnetic field is presented which may be appropriate for use in analysis of magnetic fluctuations in plasma containment devices or the interplanetary medium. A procedure for determining the magnetic helicity from experimental data is presented.

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