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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 6, 2401132 (2011)

Regular Articles

Nonlocal Interaction of Inverse Magnetic Energy Transfer in Hall Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
Keisuke ARAKI and Hideaki MIURA1)
Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Japan
1)
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan
(Received 24 December 2010 / Accepted 5 August 2011 / Published 21 October 2011)

Abstract

A detailed analysis of forward and inverse energy transfer processes due to the Hall term effect in freely decaying, homogeneous, isotropic Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) turbulence is performed through Fourier and wavelet analyses. We analyzed three snapshot datasets that were taken from such a period to allow the turbulence to develop sufficiently with a nearly constant magnetic Reynolds number. Because the Fourier energy spectra in these snapshots show remarkable agreement after the normalization in terms of the dissipation rates and the diffusion coefficients, they are considered as a universal equilibrium state. By analyzing the numerical solutions that are generated without any external forcing, it is confirmed that the inverse energy transfer due to the Hall term effect is intrinsic to HMHD dynamics. Orthonormal divergence-free wavelet analysis reveals that nonlinear mode interactions contributing to the inverse energy transfer exhibit a nonlocal feature, while those for the forward transfer are dominated by a local feature.

Keywords

hall magnetohydrodynamics, wavelet analysis, inverse energy transfer, nonlocal interaction

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.6.2401132

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Keisuke ARAKI and Hideaki MIURA, Plasma Fusion Res. 6, 2401132 (2011).