Energy fluxes and shell-to-shell transfers in three-dimensional decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Debliquy, Olivier ; Verma, Mahendra K. ; Carati, Daniele (2005) Energy fluxes and shell-to-shell transfers in three-dimensional decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Physics of Plasmas, 12 (4). 042309. ISSN 1070-664X

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1063/1.1867996

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1867996

Abstract

A spectral analysis of the energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is presented using high-resolution direct numerical simulation of decaying isotropic turbulence. The Fourier representations of both the velocity and the magnetic fields are split into subsets that correspond to shells of wave vectors. A detailed study of the shell-to-shell interactions is performed and a comparison with theoretical prediction based on field-theoretic method is proposed. Two different definitions for the forward and backward energy transfers are suggested. They provide diagnostics that can be used in order to assess subgrid-scale modeling in large eddy simulation for turbulent MHD systems.

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