Statistics of active vs. passive advections in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
arXiv:nlin/0403017 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.69.057301
Abstract
Active turbulent advection is considered in the context of magneto-hydrodynamics. In this case, an auxiliary passive field bears no apparent connection to the active field. The scaling properties of the two fields are different. In the framework of a shell model, we show that the two-point structure function of the passive field has a unique zero mode, characterizing the scaling of this field only. In other words, the existence of statistical invariants for the decaying passive field carries no information on the scaling properties of the active field.
4 pages, 2 figures
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