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arxiv: 0907.4475 · v1 · submitted 2009-07-26 · 🌌 astro-ph.GA · physics.plasm-ph

Spectrum of weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

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keywords turbulencewavescondensateenergymagnetohydrodynamicnon-balancednumbersspectra
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Turbulence of magnetohydrodynamic waves in nature and in the laboratory is generally cross-helical or non-balanced, in that the energies of Afv\'en waves moving in opposite directions along the guide magnetic field are unequal. Based on high-resolution numerical simulations it is proposed that such turbulence spontaneously generates a condensate of the residual energy $E_v-E_b$ at small field-parallel wave numbers. As a result, the energy spectra of counter-propagating Alfv\'en waves are not scale-invariant. In the limit of infinite Reynolds number, the universality is asymptotically restored at large wave numbers, and both spectra attain the scaling $E(k)\propto k_{\perp}^{-2}$. The generation of condensate is apparently related to the breakdown of mirror symmetry in non-balanced turbulence.

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