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Turbulence is the most common state of astrophysical flows. In typical astrophysical fluids, turbulence is accompanied by strong magnetic fields, which has a large impact on the dynamics of the turbulent cascade. Recently, there has been a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lazarian , Jungyeon Cho , Huirong Yan

Motivated by recent analytic predictions, we report numerical evidence showing that in driven incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence the magnetic- and velocity-field fluctuations locally tend to align the directions of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joanne Mason , Fausto Cattaneo , Stanislav Boldyrev

Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous in magnetized astrophysical plasmas, and it radically changes a great variety of astrophysical processes. In this review, we give the concept of MHD turbulence and explain the origin of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Elena Popova , Alexandre Lazarian

It has been proposed recently by Loureiro & Boldyrev [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 245101 (2017)] and Mallet et al. [Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 468, 4862 (2017)] that strongly anisotropic current sheets formed in the inertial range of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Justin Walker , Stanislav Boldyrev , Nuno Loureiro

I present a review of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a strongly magnetised plasma. The approach is phenomenological even where a more rigorous theory is available, so that a reader armed with paper, pencil and some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Sridhar

We investigate the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic perturbations in presence of stochastic noise in rotating shear flows. The particular emphasis is the flows whose angular velocity decreases but specific angular momentum increases with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 Sujit Kumar Nath

The origin of hydrodynamical instability and turbulence in the Keplerian accretion disk is a long-standing puzzle. The flow therein is linearly stable. Here we explore the evolution of perturbation in this flow in the presence of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-18 Subham Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

A method of construction of decomposition of correlation functions of developed turbulence in a compressible fluid on Mach number {\em Ma} is generalized now for a model of stochastic magnetic hydrodynamics. With the help of the field…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 D. Yu. Wolchenkov

Turbulence is a complex physical process prevalent in modern physics, particularly in ionized environments like interstellar gas, where magnetic fields play a dynamic role. However, the precise influence of magnetic fields in such settings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

Chaotic flow is studied in a series of numerical magnetohydrodynamical simulations that use the shearing box formalism. This mimics important features of local accretion disk dynamics. The magnetorotational instability gives rise to flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. F. Winters , S. A. Balbus , J. F. Hawley

Aims: To investigate the stability and angular momentum transport by the strato-rotational instability in the nonlinear regime. Methods: The hydrodynamic compressible equations are solved in a cartesian box in which the outer cylinder is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandenburg , G. Ruediger

Turbulence in the interstellar medium has been an active field of research in the last decade. Numerical simulations are the tool of choice in most cases. But while there are a number of simulations on the market some questions have not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Wisniewski , R. Kissmann , F. Spanier

Diverse processes rely on the viscous flow of polymer solutions through porous media. In many cases, the macroscopic flow resistance abruptly increases above a threshold flow rate in a porous medium---but not in bulk solution. The reason…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-07 Christopher A. Browne , Sujit S. Datta

Magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is an important instability mechanism for rotating flows with magnetic fields. In particular, when the strength of the magnetic field tends to zero, the stability criterion for rotating flows is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Zhiwu Lin , Yucong Wang , Wenpei Wu

A mechanism of excitation of the large-scale inertial waves in a rotating inhomogeneous turbulence due to an excitation of a large-scale instability is found. This instability is caused by a combined effect of the inhomogeneity of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Elperin , I. Golubev , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

The elliptical instability can take place in planetary cores and stars elliptically deformed by gravitational effects, where it generates large-scale three-dimensional flows assumed to be dynamo capable. In this work, we present the first…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 David Cébron , Michael Le Bars , Pierre Maubert , Patrice Le Gal

In a previous paper, we have reported numerical simulations of the MHD flow driven by a travelling magnetic field (TMF) in an annular channel, at low Reynolds number. It was shown that the stalling of such induction pump is strongly related…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 Paola Rodriguez Imazio , Christophe Gissinger

MHD Turbulence is common in many space physics and astrophysics environments. We first discuss the properties of incompressible MHD turbulence. A well-conductive fluid amplifies initial magnetic fields in a process called small-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrey Beresnyak , Alex Lazarian

The physical nature of the macroturbulence in the vortex matter in YBCO superconductors is verified by means of magnetooptic study of the instability in a single crystal prepared specially for this purpose. The instability develops near…

The origin of hydrodynamic turbulence in rotating shear flow is a long standing puzzle. Resolving it is especially important in astrophysics when the flow angular momentum profile is Keplerian which forms an accretion disk having negligible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Kanak Saha