ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION AND LEVY RANDOM-WALK OF MAGNETIC-FIELD LINES IN 3-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE

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ZIMBARDO, G
VELTRI, P
BASILE, G
PRINCIPATO, S
机构
[1] Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria
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10.1063/1.871453
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O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
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070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
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The transport of magnetic field lines is studied numerically where three dimensional (3-D) magnetic fluctuations, with a power law spectrum, and periodic over the simulation box are superimposed on an average uniform magnetic field. The weak and the strong turbulence regime, δB∼B0, are investigated. In the weak turbulence case, magnetic flux tubes are separated from each other by percolating layers in which field lines undergo a chaotic motion. In this regime the field lines may exhibit Lévy, rather than Gaussian, random walk, changing from Lévy flights to trapped motion. The anomalous diffusion laws 〈Δχi2〉 ∝ sα with α>1 and α<1, are obtained for a number of cases, and the non-Gaussian character of the field line random walk is pointed out by computing the kurtosis. Increasing the fluctuation level, and, therefore stochasticity, normal diffusion (α≃1) is recovered and the kurtoses reach their Gaussian value. However, the numerical results show that neither the quasi-linear theory nor the two dimensional percolation theory can be safely extrapolated to the considered 3-D strong turbulence regime. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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