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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Origins of the k(-2) spectrum in decaying Taylor-Green magnetohydrodynamic turbulent flows
1Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, École normale supérieure, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marié Curie, Université Paris Diderot, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France.
Abstract:
We investigate the origins of k(-2) spectrum in a decaying Taylor-Green magnetohydrodynamic flow with zero large scale magnetic flux that was reported by Lee et al. [Phys. Rev. E 81, 016318 (2010)]. So far, a possible candidate for this scaling exponent has been the weak turbulence phenomenology. From our numerical simulations, we observe that current sheets in the magnetic Taylor-Green flow are formed in regions of magnetic discontinuities. Based on this observation and by studying the influence of the current sheets on the energy spectrum, using a filtering technique, we argue that the discontinuities are responsible for the -2 power law scaling of the energy spectra of this flow.
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