Systematics of the magnetic-Prandtl-number dependence of homogeneous, isotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Abstract

We present the results of our detailed pseudospectral direct numerical simulation (DNS) studies, with up to $1024^3$ collocation points, of incompressible, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in three dimensions, without a mean magnetic field. Our study concentrates on the dependence of various statistical properties of both decaying and statistically steady MHD turbulence on the magnetic Prandtl number $\mathrm{P}{\mathrm{r}}_{\mathrm{M}}$ over a large range, namely, $0.01\le \mathrm{P}{\mathrm{r}}_{\mathrm{M}}\le 10$. We obtain data for a wide variety of statistical measures such as probability distribution functions (PDFs) of moduli of the vorticity and current density, the energy dissipation rates, and velocity and magnetic-field increments, energy and other spectra, velocity and magnetic-field structure functions, which we use to characterise intermittency, isosurfaces of quantities such as the moduli of the vorticity and current, and joint PDFs such as those of fluid and magnetic dissipation rates. Our systematic study uncovers interesting results that have not been noted hitherto. In particular, we find a crossover from larger intermittency in the magnetic field than in the velocity field, at large $\mathrm{P}{\mathrm{r}}_{\mathrm{M}}$, to smaller intermittency in the magnetic field than in the velocity field, at low $\mathrm{P}{\mathrm{r}}_{\mathrm{M}}$. Furthermore, a comparison of our results for decaying MHD turbulence and its forced, statistically steady analogue suggests that we have strong universality in the sense that, for a fixed value of $\mathrm{P}{\mathrm{r}}_{\mathrm{M}}$, multiscaling exponent ratios agree, at least within our errorbars, for both decaying and statistically steady homogeneous, isotropic MHD turbulence.

arXiv comment49 pages,33 figures

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