Wave turbulence in inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics
- 1Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau , France
- 2Institut universitaire de France, France
A wave turbulence theory is developed for inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics (IEMHD) in the presence of a relatively strong and uniform external magnetic field B0 = B0e∥. This regime is relevant for scales smaller than the electron inertial length de. We derive the kinetic equations that describe the three-wave interactions between inertial whistler or kinetic Alfvén waves. We show that for both invariants, energy and momentum, the transfer is anisotropic (axisymmetric) with a direct cascade mainly in the direction perpendicular (⊥) to B0. The exact stationary solutions (Kolmogorov–Zakharov spectra) are obtained for which we prove the locality. We also found the Kolmogorov constant CK ≃ 8.474. In the simplest case, the study reveals an energy spectrum in k⊥−5/2k∥−1/2 (with k the wavenumber) and a momentum spectrum enslaved to the energy dynamics in k⊥−3/2k∥−1/2. These solutions correspond to a magnetic energy spectrum ∼k⊥−9/2, which is steeper than the EMHD prediction made for scales larger than de.
How to cite: David, V. and Galtier, S.: Wave turbulence in inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-6669, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6669, 2023.