Effects of multiple driving scales on incompressible turbulence

  • Yoo, Hyun-Ju (Department of Astronomy and Space science, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Cho, Jung-Yeon (Department of Astronomy and Space science, Chungnam National University)
  • Published : 2012.04.03

Abstract

Turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical fluids such as the interstellar medium and intracluster medium. To maintain turbulent motion, energy must be injected into the fluids. In turbulence studies, it is customary to assume that the fluid is driven on a scale, but there can be many different driving mechanisms that act on different scales in astrophysical fluids. We expect different statistical properties of turbulence between turbulence with single driving scale and turbulence with double driving scales. In this work, we perform 3-dimensional incompressible MHD turbulence simulations with energy injection in two ranges, 2${\surd}$12 (large scale) and 15

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