Random walk of magnetic field lines in dynamical turbulence: A field line tracing method. II. Two-dimensional turbulence

The wandering of magnetic field lines is an important topic in theoretical plasma physics and astrophysics. Previous analytical work, as well as computer simulations, is based on magnetostatic models to warrant mathematical and numerical tractability. Recently, we have studied the first time field line random walk in dynamical turbulence by using a field line tracing method. These calculations were performed for a slab model of the turbulence. It is the purpose of the present paper to use the latter method to compute the field line diffusion coefficient for dynamical two-dimensional turbulence. Two models for the dynamical correlation function are used, namely the damping model of dynamical turbulence and the nonlinear anisotropic dynamical turbulence model. It is shown that the largest scales of the turbulence and the choice of the dynamical turbulence model have a strong influence on the diffusivity of the field lines and the absolute value of the diffusion coefficient. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3693384]