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The dynamic conformal transformation method has been generalized for the first time to numerically simulate the capillary wave turbulence of a liquid surface in the plane symmetric anisotropic geometry. The model is strongly nonlinear and…

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The consequences of discrete particle noise for a system possessing a possibly unstable collective mode are discussed. It is argued that a zonostrophic instability (of homogeneous turbulence to the formation of zonal flows) occurs just…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 D. A. St-Onge , J. A. Krommes

Fast magnetosonic waves are among the fundamental oscillation modes of astrophysical plasmas. To study their dynamics, we carry out numerical simulations of the wave turbulence kinetic equation, which describes the evolution of the energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Nicolás Pablo Müller , Sébastien Galtier

In this paper, we investigate inertially forced isothermal quantum turbulence (coflow of normal and superfluid components) at temperatures of 1.6 and 2 K. The experiments are carried out in a large optical cryostat, where quasi-isotropic,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Clément Bret , Pantxo Diribarne , Jérôme Duplat , Bernard Rousset

The electron-cyclotron maser is a process that generates intense and coherent radio emission in plasma. In this paper, we present a comprehensive parametric investigation on the electron-cyclotron-maser instability driven by non-thermal…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Zi-Jin Tong , Chuan-Bing Wang , Pei-Jin Zhang , Jin Liu

The turbulent-like process associated with ionospheric instabilities, has been identified as the main nonlinear process that drives the irregularities observed in the different ionospheric regions. In this complementary study, as proposed…

Weakly collisional space plasmas are rarely in local thermal equilibrium and often exhibit non-Maxwellian electron and ion velocity distributions that lead to the growth of microinstabilities, that is, enhanced electric and magnetic fields…

We conduct a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of the parametric decay instability of Alfv\'en waves and resultant compressible MHD turbulence, which is likely to develop in the solar wind acceleration region. Because…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Munehito Shoda , Takaaki Yokoyama

The properties of supersonic isothermal turbulence influence a variety of astrophysical phenomena, including the structure and evolution of star forming clouds. This work presents a simple model for the structure of dense regions in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Brant Robertson , Peter Goldreich

The theory of isotropic capillary turbulence was developed in the late 1960s by Zakharov and Filonenko. To date, the analytical solution of the kinetic equation describing the stationary transfer of energy to small scales due to three-wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 E. A. Kochurin , P. A. Russkikh

A numerical analysis of the self-interaction induced by a relativistic electron/positron beam in the presence of an intense external longitudinal magnetic field in plasmas is carried out. Within the context of the Plasma Wake Field theory…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 Fatema Tanjia , Sergio De Nicola , Renato Fedele , P. K. Shukla , Dusan Jovanovic

A subgrid electron-temperature-gradient (ETG) model is demonstrated here which averages local electron-scale turbulence from the GENE code over intermediate scales in space and time to include in global ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) GEM…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Stefan Tirkas , Yang Chen , Scott Parker

The derivation of an intermediate-scale gyrokinetic-electron theory in nonuniform tokamak plasmas [Chen H. et al 2021 Nucl. Fusion 61 066017] has shown that a Navier-Stokes type nonlinearity couples electron-temperature-gradient (ETG) modes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Stefan Tirkas , Haotian Chen , Gabriele Merlo , Frank Jenko , Scott Parker

Electrostatic gyrokinetic instabilities and turbulence in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator are studied. Particular attention is paid to the ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) instability and its character close to marginal stability…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 L. Podavini , A. Zocco , J. M. García-Regaña , M. Barnes , F. I. Parra , A. Mishchenko , P. Helander

We discuss the parametric instabilities of large-amplitude parallel propagating Alfven waves using the 2-D PIC simulation code. First, we confirmed the results in the past study [Sakai et al, 2005] that the electrons are heated due to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Yasuhiro Nariyuki , Shuichi Matsukiyo , Tohru Hada

The interstellar medium (ISM) is turbulent on all scales and in all phases. In this paper, we study turbulence with different tracers in four nearby star-forming regions: Orion, Ophiuchus, Perseus, and Taurus. We combine the APOGEE-2 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Trung Ha , Yuan Li , Marina Kounkel , Siyao Xu , Hui Li , Yong Zheng

We investigate the effect of varying the ion temperature gradient (ITG) and toroidal equilibrium scale sheared flow on ion-scale turbulence in the outer core of MAST by means of local gyrokinetic simulations. We show that nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 F. van Wyk , E. G. Highcock , A. R. Field , C. M. Roach , A. A. Schekochihin , F. I. Parra , W. Dorland

We simulate decaying turbulence in a homogeneous pair plasma using three dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) method. A uniform background magnetic field permeates the plasma such that the magnetic pressure is three times…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 R. Kumar , D. Eichler , M. Gaspari , A. Spitkovsky

The interstellar medium (ISM) of disk galaxies is turbulent, and yet the fundamental nature of ISM turbulence, the energy cascade, is not understood in detail. In this study, we use high-resolution simulations of a hydrodynamical,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-16 James R. Beattie , Anne Noer Kolborg , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Christoph Federrath

The inertial subrange of turbulence in a density stratified environment is the transition from internal waves to isotropic turbulence, but it is unclear how to interpret its extension to anisotropic stratified turbulence. Knowledge about…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Hans van Haren