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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E Année : 2021

Spontaneous generation and reversal of helicity in anisotropic turbulence

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Helicity plays an important role in spectacular geophysical phenomena such as hurricanes or the generation of the terrestrial magnetic field. The present investigation shows how helicity can be created in a statistically homogeneous but anisotropic flow, driven by buoyancy. If the flow is close enough to a two-dimensional limit, spontaneous symmetry breaking leads to the generation of mean helicity. In particular, we explain these observations by identifying a simple linear mechanism, the relevance of which is illustrated by simulations of unstably stratified turbulence in a conducting fluid on which a magnetic field is imposed. Finally it is shown that the self-organized state displays dynamical reversals of the sign of the mean helicity.
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hal-03254268 , version 1 (08-06-2021)

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Wesley Agoua, Benjamin Favier, Alexandre Delache, Antoine Briard, Wouter J.T. Bos. Spontaneous generation and reversal of helicity in anisotropic turbulence. Physical Review E , 2021, ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.103.L061101⟩. ⟨hal-03254268⟩
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