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In the presence of magnetic helicity, inverse transfer from small to large scales is well known in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and has applications in astrophysics, cosmology, and fusion plasmas. Using high resolution direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-23 Axel Brandenburg , Tina Kahniashvili , Alexander G. Tevzadze

We perform a suite of two- and three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with the Athena code of the non-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the subsonic, weak magnetic field limit. Focusing the analysis on the non-linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Greg Salvesen , Kris Beckwith , Jacob B. Simon , Sean M. O'Neill , Mitchell C. Begelman

We analyse the anisotropy of homogeneous turbulence in an electrically conducting fluid submitted to a uniform magnetic field, for low magnetic Reynolds number, in the quasi- static approximation. We interpret disagreeing previous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-23 B. F. N. Favier , F. S. Godeferd , C. Cambon , A. Delache , W. J. T. Bos

Recent developments of the weak turbulence theory applied to internal waves exhibit a power-law solution of the kinetic energy equation close to the oceanic Garrett \& Munk spectrum, confirming weakly nonlinear wave interactions as a likely…

The first estimation of the energy cascade rate ${|\epsilon_C|}$ of magnetosheath turbulence is obtained using the CLUSTER and THEMIS spacecraft data and an exact law of compressible isothermal magnetohydrodynamics turbulence.…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Lina Hadid , Fouad Sahraoui , Sebastien Galtier , Shiyong Huang

We analyze a merged Parker Solar Probe ($PSP$) and Solar Orbiter ($SO$) dataset covering heliocentric distances $13 \ R_{\odot} \lesssim R \lesssim 220$ $R_{\odot}$ to investigate the radial evolution of power and spectral-index anisotropy…

Models for GRB outflows invoke turbulence in relativistically hot magnetized fluids. In order to investigate these conditions we have performed high-resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations of relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-29 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

We study a simple magnetohydrodynamical approach in which hydrodynamics and MHD turbulence are coupled in a shell model, with given dynamo constrains in the large scales. We consider the case of a low Prandtl number fluid for which the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Roberto Benzi , Jean-Francois Pinton

While the focusing and defocusing Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations have similar behavior in the weak turbulence regime, they must differ dramatically in the strong turbulence regime. Here, we show that this difference is already present at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-23 Vladimir Rosenhaus , Gregory Falkovich

Many astrophysical fluids are magnetized and turbulent. Such fluids can be often described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In this review, we mainly consider MHD turbulence with a strong mean magnetic field whose energy density is greater…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Jungyeon Cho

We investigate properties of plasma turbulence from magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) to sub-ion scales by means of two-dimensional, high-resolution hybrid particle-in-cell simulations. We impose an initial ambient magnetic field, perpendicular to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Luca Franci , Simone Landi , Lorenzo Matteini , Andrea Verdini , Petr Hellinger

We present results from a numerical forward model to evaluate one-dimensional reduced power spectral densities (PSD) from arbitrary energy distributions in $\mathbf{k}$-space. In this model, we can separately calculate the diagonal elements…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Michael von Papen , Joachim Saur

Large-amplitude turbulence -- characterized by a fluctuating magnetic field component, $\delta B$, that is stronger than the mean component, $B_0$ -- is generically intermittent, populated with intense localized structures such as sharp…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Ryan Golant , Luca Comisso , Philipp Kempski , Lorenzo Sironi

Direct and large eddy simulations of hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic turbulence have been performed in an attempt to isolate artifacts from real and possibly asymptotic features in the energy spectra. It is shown that in a hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. E. L. Haugen , A. Brandenburg

We develop an analytic model of intermittent, three-dimensional, strong, reduced magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with zero cross helicity. We take the fluctuation amplitudes to have a log-Poisson distribution and incorporate into the model a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Alexander A. Schekochihin , Alfred Mallet

We study the properties of sub-Alfvenic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, i.e., turbulence with Alfven Mach number $M_A=V_L/V_A<1$, where $V_L$ is the velocity at the injection scale and $V_A$ is the Alfven velocity. We demonstrate that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-28 Alex Lazarian , Ka Wai HO , Ka Ho Yuen , Ethan Vishniac

The turbulence of capillary waves on the surface of a ferrofluid with a high permeability in a horizontal magnetic field is considered in the framework of a one-dimensional weakly nonlinear model. In the limit of a strong magnetic field,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-21 Evgeny A. Kochurin

In decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with a strong magnetic field, the spectral magnetic energy density is known to increase with time at small wavenumbers $k$, provided the spectrum at low $k$ is sufficiently steep. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Axel Brandenburg , Ramkishor Sharma , Tanmay Vachaspati

The dynamics of the two-dimensional (2D) state in driven tridimensional (3D) incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is investigated through high-resolution direct numerical simulations and in the presence of an external magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Barbara Bigot , Sebastien Galtier

We investigate the transition of the solar wind turbulent cascade from MHD to sub-ion range by means of a detail comparison between in situ observations and hybrid numerical simulations. In particular we focus on the properties of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 L. Matteini , L. Franci , O. Alexandrova , C. Lacombe , S. Landi , P. Hellinger , E. Papini , A. Verdini