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Alfvenic Turbulence超出双极扩散量表

Alfvenic Turbulence Beyond the Ambipolar Diffusion Scale

Blakesley Burkhart, A. Lazarian, D. Balsara, C. Meyer, J. Cho

摘要:

我们调查的性质的Alfvénic湍流级联在两个流体MHD模拟,以确定如果湍流阻尼一旦离子和中性物质成为去耦在一个临界尺度称为双极扩散尺度(L $_{AD}$)。利用模分解方法分离出三种经典MHD模,在局域磁场的参考系中研究了中性粒子和离子的Alfvén模速度场的二阶结构函数.在大于L $_{AD}$的尺度上,我们证实了两种流体湍流与单流体MHD湍流非常相似。我们的模拟表明,两个流体湍流的行为变得更加复杂的尺度小于L $_{AD}$。我们发现,阿尔文湍流可以存在过去L $_{AD}$的湍流时,全球超阿尔文,与离子和中性形成单独的级联一旦去耦已经发生。当湍流是全球次阿尔文,因此强烈的各向异性与一个大的分离之间的平行和垂直的解耦尺度,湍流阻尼在L $_{AD}$。我们还发现,在阻尼制度的动能的功率谱是一致的$k^{-4}$标度(与Lazarian,Vishniac和赵2004年的预测)。

英文摘要:

We investigate the nature of the Alfvénic turbulence cascade in two fluid MHD simulations in order to determine if turbulence is damped once the ion and neutral species become decoupled at a critical scale called the ambipolar diffusion scale (L$_{AD}$). Using mode decomposition to separate the three classical MHD modes, we study the second order structure functions of the Alfvén mode velocity field of both neutrals and ions in the reference frame of the local magnetic field. On scales greater than L$_{AD}$ we confirm that two fluid turbulence strongly resembles single fluid MHD turbulence. Our simulations show that the behavior of two fluid turbulence becomes more complex on scales less than L$_{AD}$. We find that Alfvenic turbulence can exist past L$_{AD}$ when the turbulence is globally super-Alfvénic, with the ions and neutrals forming separate cascades once decoupling has taken place. When turbulence is globally sub-Alfvenic and hence strongly anisotropic with a large separation between the parallel and perpendicular decoupling scales, turbulence is damped at L$_{AD}$. We also find that the power spectrum of the kinetic energy in the damped regime is consistent with a $k^{-4}$ scaling (in agreement with the predictions of Lazarian, Vishniac & Cho 2004).

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