Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-04-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
To appear in Physics of Plasmas
Scientific paper
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest description of magnetic plasma turbulence in a variety of astrophysical and laboratory systems. MHD turbulence with nonzero cross helicity is often called imbalanced, as it implies that the energies of Alfv\'en fluctuations propagating parallel and anti-parallel the background field are not equal. Recent analytical and numerical studies have revealed that at every scale, MHD turbulence consists of regions of positive and negative cross helicity, indicating that such turbulence is inherently locally imbalanced. In this paper, results from high resolution numerical simulations of steady-state incompressible MHD turbulence, with and without cross helicity are presented. It is argued that the inertial range scaling of the energy spectra (E^+ and E^-) of fluctuations moving in opposite directions is independent of the amount of cross-helicity. When cross helicity is nonzero, E^+ and E^- maintain the same scaling, but have differing amplitudes depending on the amount of cross-helicity.
Boldyrev Stanislav
Perez Jean Carlos
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