Three-dimensional direct numerical simulation of free-surface magnetohydrodynamic wave turbulence

Evgeny Kochurin1,2, Guillaume Ricard3, Nikolay Zubarev2,4 and E. Falcon3

1Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 121205, Moscow, Russia
2Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, 620016 Russia
3Université Paris Cité, MSC Laboratory, UMR 7057 CNRS, F-75 013 Paris, France
4Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991 Russia


Reference: Physical Review E 105, L063101 (2022)     LetterLogo

URL: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.105.L063101
DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.105.L063101

Abstract:
We report on three-dimensional direct numerical simulation of wave turbulence on the free surface of a magnetic fluid subjected to an external horizontal magnetic field. A transition from capillary-wave turbulence to anisotropic magneto-capillary wave turbulence is observed for an increasing field. At high enough field, wave turbulence becomes highly anisotropic, cascading mainly perpendicularly to the field direction, in good agreement with the prediction of a phenomenological model, and with anisotropic Alfvén wave turbulence. Although surface waves on a magnetic fluid are different from Alfvén waves in plasma, a strong analogy is found with similar wave spectrum scalings and similar magnetic-field dependent dispersionless wave velocities.

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