Abstract
Investigations of the inverse cascade of magnetic helicity are conducted with pseudospectral, three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of forced and decaying incompressible MHD turbulence. The high-resolution simulations which allow for the necessary scale separation show that the observed self-similar scaling behavior of magnetic helicity and related quantities can only be understood by taking the full nonlinear interplay of velocity and magnetic fluctuations into account. With the help of the eddy-damped quasi-normal Markovian approximation a probably universal relation between kinetic and magnetic helicities is derived which closely resembles the extended definition of the prominent dynamo pseudoscalar α. This unexpected similarity suggests an additional nonlinear quenching mechanism of the current-helicity contribution to α.
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