Physics of Plasmas | 2021
Compressible helical turbulence: Fastened-structure geometry and statistics
Abstract
Reduction of flow compressibility with the corresponding ideally invariant helicities, universally for various fluid models of neutral and ionized gases, can be argued statistically and associated with the geometrical scenario in the Taylor–Proudman theorem and its analogs. A “chiral base flow/field,” rooted in the generic intrinsic local structure, as well as an “equivalence principle,” is explained and used to bridge the single-structure mechanics and the helical statistics. The electric field fluctuations may similarly be depressed by the (self-)helicities of the two-fluid plasma model, with the geometry lying in the relation between the electric and density fields in a Maxwell equation.