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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

We present a numerical study of turbulence and dynamo action in stratified shearing boxes with zero magnetic flux. We assume that the fluid obeys the perfect gas law and has finite (constant) thermal diffusivity. We choose radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Bodo , F. Cattaneo , A. Mignone , P. Rossi

We present the results obtained from linear stability analysis and 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the magnetorotational instability (MRI), including the effects of cosmic rays (CRs). We took into account of the CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Takuhito Kuwabara , Chung-Ming Ko

We present a systematic shearing-box investigation of MRI-driven turbulence in a weakly collisional plasma by including the effects of an anisotropic pressure stress, i.e. anisotropic (Braginskii) viscosity. We constrain the pressure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-01 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire , Matthew W. Kunz

For more than a decade, the so-called shearing box model has been used to study the fundamental local dynamics of accretion discs. This approach has proved to be very useful because it allows high resolution and long term studies to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. J. Silvers

We use numerical simulations to study the shear-driven steady-state flow of athermal, frictionless, overdamped, two dimensional cross-shaped particles of varying aspect ratios, and make comparison with the behavior of rod-shaped and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-05 Theodore A. Marschall , S. Teitel

By combining data from different published 3-D simulations of Keplerian shearing boxes unstable to the magnetorotational instability (MRI), we highlight tight anti-correlations between the total effective inferred angular momentum transport…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric G. Blackman , Robert F. Penna , Peggy Varniere

We investigate the saturation level of hydromagnetic turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability in the case of vanishing net flux. Motivated by a recent paper of Bodo, Cattaneo, Mignone, & Rossi, we here focus on the case of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Oliver Gressel

Discretized numerical simulations are a powerful tool for investigation of nonlinear MHD turbulence in accretion disks. However, confidence in their quantitative predictions requires a demonstration that further refinement of the spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 John F. Hawley , Xiaoyue Guan , Julian H. Krolik

In this work, we study the impact of aspect ratio A = R0 /r (the ratio of major radius R0 to minor radius r) on the confinement benefits of Negative Triangularity (NT) plasma shaping. We use high-fidelity flux tube gyrokinetic GENE…

We study the magnetorotational instability (MRI) using nonmodal stability techniques. Despite the spectral instability of many forms of the MRI, this proves to be a natural method of analysis that is well-suited to deal with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-01 Jonathan Squire , Amitava Bhattacharjee

In the past fifteen years, flow instabilities reminiscent of the Taylor-like instabilities driven by hoop stresses, have been observed in wormlike micelles based on surfactant molecules. In particular, purely elastic instabilities and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-18 Xiaoxiao Yang , Darius Marin , Charlotte Py , Olivier Cardoso , Anke Lindner , Sandra Lerouge

The hydrodynamic response of the inviscid small shearing box model of a midplane section of a rotationally supported astrophysical disk is examined. An energy functional ${\cal E}$ is formulated for the general nonlinear problem. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Sternberg , O. M. Umurhan , Y. Gil , O. Regev

Aims: To quantify the transient growth of nonaxisymmetric perturbations in unstratified magnetized and stratified non-magnetized rotating linear shear flows in the shearing sheet approximation of accretion disc flows. Method: The Rayleigh…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg , Boris Dintrans

Rotation modulates turbulence causing columnar structuring of a turbulent flow in case of sufficiently strong rotation. This yields significant changes in the flow characteristics and dispersion properties, which makes rotational turbulence…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-04-07 Arkadiusz K. Kuczaj , Bernard J. Geurts , Darryl D. Holm

We have investigated evolution of magneto-rotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary disks that have radially non-uniform magnetic field such that stable and unstable regions coexist initially, and found that a zone in which the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. T. Kato , K. Nakamura , R. Tandokoro , M. Fujimoto , S. Ida

We use a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a geometrically thin accretion disk to investigate the locality and detailed structure of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI). The model disk has an aspect ratio $H…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kris Beckwith , Philip J. Armitage , Jacob B. Simon

Resistivity and viscosity have a significant role in establishing the energy levels in turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in local astrophysical disk models. This study uses the Athena code to characterize the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Jacob B. Simon , John F. Hawley

Magnetorotational instability (MRI)-driven turbulence and dynamo phenomena are analyzed using direct statistical simulations. Our approach begins by developing a unified mean-field model that combines the traditionally decoupled problems of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Tushar Mondal , Pallavi Bhat

We present here both analytical and numerical results of hydrodynamic stability investigations of rotationally supported circumstellar flows using the shearing box formalism. Asymptotic scaling arguments justifying the shearing box…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. M. Umurhan , O. Regev