Active vs passive scalar turbulence
arXiv:nlin/0207003 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.234502
Abstract
Active and passive scalars transported by an incompressible two-dimensional conductive fluid are investigated. It is shown that a passive scalar displays a direct cascade towards the small scales while the active magnetic potential builds up large-scale structures in an inverse cascade process. Correlations between scalar input and particle trajectories are found to be responsible for those dramatic differences as well as for the behavior of dissipative anomalies.
Revised version, Phys. Rev. Lett., in press
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