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The extent to which large scale magnetic fields are susceptible to turbulent diffusion is important for interpreting the need for in situ large scale dynamos in astrophysics and for observationally inferring field strengths compared to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Eric G. Blackman , Kandaswamy Subramanian

The 2D Parker's mean-field dynamo equations with a various distributions of the $\alpha$- and $\omega$-effects are considered. We show that smooth profiles of $\alpha$ and $\omega$ can produce dipole configuration of the magnetic field with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-25 Maxim Reshetnyak

We study large-scale kinematic dynamo action of steady mirror-antisymmetric flows of incompressible fluid, that involve small spatial scales only, by asymptotic methods of the multiscale stability theory. It turns out that, due to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-13 Alexander Andrievsky , Roman Chertovskih , Vladislav Zheligovsky

In the presence of strong density stratification, turbulence can lead to a large-scale instability of a horizontal magnetic field if its strength is in a suitable range (within a few percent of the turbulent equipartition value). This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-28 Sarah Jabbari , Axel Brandenburg , Nathan Kleeorin , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Igor Rogachevskii

We study of the effect of turbulence on diffusion processes within magnetized medium. While we exemplify our treatment with heat transfer processes, our results are quite general and are applicable to different processes, e.g. diffusion of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alex Lazarian

Results from a numerical study of fluctuation dynamo in a collisionless, weakly magnetized plasma are presented. The key difference between this dynamo and its magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) counterpart is the adiabatic production of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-17 Denis A. St-Onge , Matthew W. Kunz

The dynamics of a relativistic blast wave propagating through magnetized medium is considered taking into account possible inhomogeneities of density and magnetic field and additional energy supply. Under the simplifying assumption of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maxim Lyutikov

A concise review of observations of the $\alpha$ dynamo effect in laboratory plasmas is given. Unlike many astrophysical systems, the laboratory pinch plasmas are driven magnetically. When the system is overdriven, the resultant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 Hantao Ji , Stewart C. Prager

We show that there exist two qualitatively distinct turbulent states of the zero-net-vertical-flux shearing box. The first, which has been studied in detail previously, is characterized by a weakly magnetized ($\beta\sim50$) midplane with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Jonathan Squire , Eliot Quataert , Philip F. Hopkins

To understand the basic mechanism of the formation of magnetic flux concentrations, we determine by direct numerical simulations the turbulence contributions to the mean magnetic pressure in a strongly stratified isothermal layer with large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Axel Brandenburg , Koen Kemel , Nathan Kleeorin , Igor Rogachevskii

Renormalization is one of the basic notions of condensed matter physics. Based on the concept of renormalization, the Landau's {\em Fermi liquid} theory has been able to explain, why despite the presence of Coulomb interactions, the free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-06 S. A. Jafari

The interstellar magnetic field strength and gas density are observed to be correlated, but there is a large dispersion in this relation. In particular, the magnetic field is often observed to be weaker than expected. It is usually assumed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ellen G. Zweibel

The intracluster medium (ICM) is stably stratified in the hydrodynamic sense with the entropy $s$ increasing outwards. However, thermal conduction along magnetic field lines fundamentally changes the stability of the ICM, leading to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Sharma , B. D. G. Chandran , E. Quataert , I. J. Parrish

Non-helical hydromagnetic turbulence with an externally imposed magnetic field is investigated using direct numerical simulations. It is shown that the imposed magnetic field lowers the spectral magnetic energy in the inertial range. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nils Erland L. Haugen , Axel Brandenburg

Natural dynamos such as planets and stars generate global scale magnetic field despite the inferred presence of small scale turbulence. Such systems are known as large scale dynamos and are typically driven by convection and influenced by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-24 Ming Yan , Michael A. Calkins

It is well known that the convection of liquid solution or melt liquid is inhibited by the magnetic field experimentally, and so that we can make the larger and better crystals at the cost of slow growth rate. We shall show here another two…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Naohisa Ogawa , Shu-ichi Nagasawa

Generation of Alfv\'en and slow magneto-acoustic waves in weakly ionized atmospheres by excitation of the charges-only component of the two fluid (charges and neutrals) plasma is shown to be more or less efficient depending on the energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Paul S. Cally

Several one and two dimensional mean field models are analyzed where the effects of current helicity fluxes and boundaries are included within the framework of the dynamical quenching model. In contrast to the case with periodic boundary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg , Kandaswamy Subramanian

The ordered magnetic field observed via polarized synchrotron emission in nearby disc galaxies can be explained by a mean-field dynamo operating in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). Additionally, vertical-flux initial conditions are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-06 A. Bendre , O. Gressel , D. Elstner

The validity of a closure called the minimal tau approximation (MTA), is tested in the context of dynamo theory, wherein triple correlations are assumed to provide relaxation of the turbulent electromotive force. Under MTA, the alpha effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandenburg , K. Subramanian