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Exact von-Kármán-Howarth relations for the Hosking integral in decaying, non-helical magnetically-dominated turbulence

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Abstract

The Hosking integral (Hosking & Schekochihin 2021, PRX 11, 041005) has recently been recognised as a key invariant that constrains the decay of magnetic fields that are statistically homogeneous, isotropic and non-helical, such as would have existed in the early Universe under certain primordial magnetogenesis scenarios. In this talk, we present new von-Karman-Howarth-Monin relations and corresponding exact scaling relations for the two-point magnetic-helicity-density correlation function in both incompressible and compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We demonstrate with high-resolution numerical simulations of such turbulence that the condition of rapid decorrelation of the velocity and magnetic fields that — according to our new relations — is required for the conservation of the Hosking integral is, indeed, satisfied. Thus, we provide new evidence in support of the importance of the Hosking integral in constraining turbulent MHD decay.

Publication: Exact von-Kármán-Howarth scaling relations for the Hosking integral in non-helical magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. (J.K.J. Hew, D.N. Hosking, C. Federrath, J.R. Beattie, A. Seta & N. Kriel): planned paper<br><br>Non-helical inverse transfer of magnetic energy in decaying compressible MHD turbulence. (J.K.J. Hew, D.N. Hosking, C. Federrath, J.R. Beattie, A. Seta & N. Kriel): planned paper<br><br>Hew, Justin Kin Jun, and Christoph Federrath. "Lagrangian statistics of a shock-driven turbulent dynamo in decaying turbulence." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 520, no. 4 (2023): 6268-6282.

Presenters

  • Justin Kin Jun Hew

    Australian National University

Authors

  • Justin Kin Jun Hew

    Australian National University

  • David N Hosking

    Princeton University

  • Christoph Federrath

    Australian National University