The chaotic advection of fluid particle pairs is investigated though a low-order model of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), where only five nonlinearly interacting modes are retained. The model is inthrinsically inhomogeneous and anisotropic because of the influence of large-scale fluctuations. Therefore, even though dynamically chaotic, the fields are unable to form the typical scaling laws of fully developed turbulence. Results show that a super-ballistic dynamics, reminiscent of the Richardson law of particle-pairs diffusion in turbulent flows, is robustly obtained using the truncated model. Indeed, even in the strongly reduced truncation presented here, particle diffusion in MHD turbulence has the same laws as the separation of velocity of particle pairs. The inherent anisotropy only affects the scaling of diffusivity, by enhancing the diffusion properties along one direction for small time-scales. Finally, when further anisotropy is introduced in the system through Alfvén waves, fluid particles are trapped by these, and super-ballistic diffusion is replaced by Brownian-like diffusion. On the other hand, when the magnetic field is removed, the kinetic counterpart of the model does not show super-ballistic dynamics.
Chaotic advection and particle pairs diffusion in a low-dimensional truncation of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics
Carbone F.; Telloni D.; Zank G.; Sorriso-Valvo L.
Journal:
Europhysics letters (Print) 138 (5),
pp. 53001-1 - 53001-7
Year:
2022
ISTP Authors: Luca Sorriso-Valvo
Keywords: Chaotic advection, chaos, Turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamics
Research Activitie: JOURNAL ARTICLES
Related products
-
Atomic spectroscopy 42 (1), pp. 18 - 24 Year: 2021 DOI: 10.46770/AS.2020.202
Spark discharge-libs: Evaluation of one-point and multi-voltage calibration for p and al determination
Vieira A.L.; Ferreira E.C.; Junior D.S.; Senesi G.S.; Neto J.A.G.
-
Review of scientific instruments 92 (4), pp. 043556-1 - 043556-6 Year: 2021 DOI: 10.1063/5.0043669
Design of JT-60SA core Thomson scattering diagnostic system
Tojo H.; Pasqualotto R.; Fassina A.; Giudicotti L.; Sasao H.; Homma H.; Oyama N.
-
Fusion engineering and design 166 pp. 112315 - 1 - 112315 - 6 Year: 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2021.112315
Cross machine investigation of magnetic tokamak dust: Morphological and elemental analysis
De Angeli M.; Ripamonti D.; Ghezzi F.; Tolias P.; Conti C.; Arnas C.; Jerab M.; Rudakov D.L.; Chrobak C.P.; Irby J.; LaBombard B.; Lipschultz B.; Maddaluno G.
English
Italiano