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We briefly review helicity dynamics, inverse and bi-directional cascades in fluid and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, with an emphasis on the latter. The energy of a turbulent system, an invariant in the non-dissipative case, is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-13 A. Pouquet , D. Rosenberg , J. E. Stawarz , R. Marino

Maps of polarized dust emission of molecular clouds reveal the morphology of the magnetic field associated with star-forming regions. In particular, polarization maps of hub-filament systems show the distortion of magnetic field lines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-21 Domitilla Tapinassi , Daniele Galli , Marco Padovani , Henrik Beuther

We conduct an in-depth analysis of statistical flow properties calculated from the reference high-resolution Saturn simulation obtained by global climate modelling in Part II. In the steady state of this reference simulation, strongly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-09 Simon , Cabanes , Aymeric , Spiga , Roland , M. B. Young

Intercluster medium is expected to be turbulent with turbulence being superAlfvenic at large scales. Magnetic fields substantially modify the turbulent cascade when the turbulence reaches the scales at which the fluctuation velocity gets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Lazarian

Two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of a recent encounter of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) with an electron diffusion region at the magnetopause are presented. While the two-dimensional simulation is…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 L. Price , M. Swisdak , J. F. Drake , P. A. Cassak , J. T. Dahlin , R. E. Ergun

We investigate turbulence in magnetic reconnection jets in the Earth's magnetotail using data from the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft. We show that signatures of a limited inertial range are observed in many reconnection jets. The…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 L. Richard , L. Sorriso-Valvo , E. Yordanova , D. B. Graham , Yu. V. Khotyaintsev

Magnetic field fluctuations in the vicinity of the Earth's bow shock have been investigated with the aim to characterize the intermittent behaviour of strong plasma turbulence. The observed small-scale intermittency may be the signature of…

comp-gas · Physics 2020-01-29 T. Dudok de Wit , V. V. Krasnosel'skikh

Due to the inevitable accumulation of the observed information in the direction of the line of sight, it is difficult to measure the local magnetic field of MHD turbulence. However, the correct understanding of the local magnetic field is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Jian-Fu Zhang , Ke Hu , Jungyeon Cho , Alex Lazarian

We propose a phenomenological theory of strong incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the presence of a strong large-scale external magnetic field. We argue that in the inertial range of scales, magnetic-field and velocity-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislav Boldyrev

Aims: To investigate the relationship between surges and magnetic reconnection during the emergence of small-scale active regions. In particular, to examine how the large-scale geometry of the magnetic field, shaped by different phases of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 David MacTaggart , Salvo Guglielmino , Andrew Haynes , Radostin Simitev , Francesca Zuccarello

We present results from an ensemble of 50 runs of two-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence with spatial resolution of 2048^2 grid points, and from an ensemble of 10 runs with 4096^2 grid points. All runs in each ensemble have random initial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

This paper proposes a new phenomenology for strong incompressible MHD turbulence with nonzero cross helicity. This phenomenology is then developed into a quantitative Fokker-Planck model that describes the time evolution of the anisotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

We revisit the scaling properties of the energy spectra in fully developed incompressible homogeneous turbulence in forced magnetofluids (MHD) in three dimensions (3D), which are believed to be characterised by {\em universal scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-02 Abhik Basu , Jayanta K Bhattacharjee

We consider topological configurations of the magnetically coupled spinning stellar binaries (e.g., merging neutron stars or interacting star-planet systems). We discuss conditions when the stellar spins and the orbital motion nearly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Sergey A. Cherkis , Maxim Lyutikov

Convection inside the magnetosphere can be regarded as the transfer of magnetic flux and plasma from the magnetotail into the nightside and then convection and drift from there to the dayside. As in many fluid flow situations, the…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerald Atkinson

We compare two rotationally invariant decomposition techniques on linear polarisation data: the spin-2 spherical harmonic decomposition in two opposite parities, the $E$- and $B$-mode, and the multiscale analysis of the gradient of linear…

The collision of magnetic reconnection jets is studied by means of a three dimensional numerical simulation at kinetic scale, in the presence of a strong guide field. We show that turbulence develops due to the jets collision producing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 F. Pucci , W. H. Matthaeus , A. Chasapis , S. Servidio , L. Sorriso-Valvo , V. Olshevsky , D. L. Newman , M. V. Goldman , G. Lapenta

Magnetic reconnection is an important driving mechanism of many chromospheric phenomena, e.g., UV bursts and chromospheric jets. Information about magnetic field is indispensable for analyzing chromospheric magnetic reconnection, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Xinyu Zhou , Takaaki Yokoyama , Haruhisa Iijima , Takuma Matsumoto , Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Masahito Kubo

The verification of whether small-scale turbulence is isotropic remains a grand challenge. The difficulty arises because the presence of small-scale anisotropy is tied to the dissipation tensor, whose components require the full…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-03 Subharthi Chowdhuri , Tirtha Banerjee

We study intermittency as a departure from self-similarity of the solar wind magnetic turbulence and investigate the evolution with the heliocentric distance and latitude. We use data from the Ulysses spacecraft measured during two solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Anna Wawrzaszek , Marius Echim , Wiesław M. Macek , Roberto Bruno
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