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This paper examines the behavior of the dimensionless dissipation rate $C_{\varepsilon}$ for stationary and nonstationary magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in presence of external forces. By combining with previous studies for freely…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-05 Moritz Linkmann , Arjun Berera , Erin E. Goldstraw

The interaction of differential rotation and toroidal fields that are current-free in the gap between two corotating axially unbounded cylinders is considered. It is shown that nonaxisymmetric perturbations are unstable if the rotation rate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Ruediger , M. Gellert , M. Schultz , R. Hollerbach , F. Stefani

We present two models for turbulent flows with periodic boundary conditions and with either rotation, or a magnetic field in the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) limit. One model, based on Lagrangian averaging, can be viewed as an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-05-01 A. Pouquet , J. Baerenzung , J. Pietarila Graham , P. Mininni , H. Politano , Y. Ponty

A main result of this paper establishes the global stability of the three-dimensional MHD equations near a background magnetic field with mixed fractional partial dissipation with $\alpha, \beta\in(\frac{1}{2}, 1]$. Namely, the velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Xuemin Deng , Yuelong Xiao , Aibin Zang

We perform 3D vertically-stratified local shearing-box ideal MHD simulations of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) that include a net vertical magnetic flux, which is characterized by beta_0 (ratio of gas pressure to magnetic pressure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone

(abriged) MRI turbulence is a leading mechanism for the generation of an efficient turbulent transport of angular momentum in an accretion disk through a turbulent viscosity effect. It is believed that the same process could also transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 G. Lesur , P-Y. Longaretti

We present results from the first 3D kinetic numerical simulation of magnetorotational turbulence and dynamo, using the local shearing-box model of a collisionless accretion disc. The kinetic magnetorotational instability grows from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Matthew W. Kunz , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is the most likely mechanism for transportation of angular momentum and dissipation of energy within hot, ionized accretion discs. This instability is produced through the interactions of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Oscar M. Pimentel , P. Chris Fragile , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Bridget Ierace , Deepika Bollimpalli

This work numerically investigates the role of viscosity and resistivity on Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in magnetized high-energy-density (HED) plasmas for a high Atwood number and high plasma beta regimes surveying across plasma beta and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Ratan Kumar Bera , Yang Song , Bhuvana Srinivasan

Simulations of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a homogeneous shearing box have shown that the asymptotic strength of the magnetic field declines steeply with increasing resolution. Here I model the MRI driven dynamo as a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Ethan T. Vishniac

(abridged) We apply a second-order Godunov code, Athena, to studies of the magnetorotational instability using unstratified shearing box simulations with a uniform net vertical field and a sinusoidally varying zero net vertical field. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Jacob B. Simon , John F. Hawley , Kris Beckwith

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered a key process for driving efficient angular momentum transport in astrophysical disks. Understanding its non-linear saturation constitutes a fundamental problem in modern accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-25 Martin E. Pessah

In collisionless and weakly collisional plasmas, such as hot accretion flows onto compact objects, the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can differ significantly from the standard (collisional) MRI. In particular, pressure anisotropy with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Jonathan Squire , Eliot Quataert , Matthew W. Kunz

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a fundamental process of accretion disk physics, but its saturation mechanism remains poorly understood despite considerable theoretical and computational effort. We present a multiple scales…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 S. E. Clark , Jeffrey S. Oishi

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is the most promising mechanism by which angular momentum is efficiently transported outwards in astrophysical discs. However, its application to protoplanetary discs remains problematic. These discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Matthew W. Kunz , Geoffroy Lesur

Building on our first paper in this series, we investigate the impact of radial magnetic fields and non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects - specifically, Ohmic resistivity, Hall drift, and ambipolar diffusion - on RWI unstable modes.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Can Cui , Zijin Wang

In ideal MHD, the magnetic flux is advected by the plasma motion, freezing flux-surfaces into the flow. An MHD equilibrium is reached when the flow relaxes and force balance is achieved. We ask what classes of MHD equilibria can be accessed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 David Pfefferlé , Lyle Noakes , Yao Zhou

In this paper, we are concerned with the validity of Prandtl boundary layer expansion for the solutions to two dimensional (2D) steady viscous incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a domain $\{(X, Y)\in[0,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin , Feng Xie

This paper presents the analysis of axisymmetric helical magnetorotational instability (HMRI) in the inviscid limit, which is relevant for astrophysical conditions. The inductionless approximation defined by zero magnetic Prandtl number is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-12-20 Jānis Priede

We present two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of the fully kinetic collisionless magnetorotational instability (MRI) in weakly magnetized (high $\beta$) pair plasma. The central result of this numerical analysis is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Giannandrea Inchingolo , Thomas Grismayer , Nuno F. Loureiro , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva