Decaying Magnetohydrodynamics: Effects of Initial Conditions

Basu, Abhik (2000) Decaying Magnetohydrodynamics: Effects of Initial Conditions. In: Physical Review E, 61 (2). pp. 1407-1416.

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Abstract

We study the effects of homogenous and isotropic initial conditions on decaying magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We show that for an initial distribution of velocity and magnetic-field fluctuations, appropriately defined structure functions decay as a power law in time. We also show that for a suitable choice of initial cross correlations between velocity and magnetic fields even-order structure functions acquire anomalous scaling in time where as scaling exponents of the odd-order structure functions remain unchanged. We discuss our results in the context of fully developed MHD turbulence.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Additional Information:	Copyright of this artical belonges to American Physical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	28 Jun 2006
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:29
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/id/eprint/7748

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