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By following the Kazantsev theory and taking into account both microscopic and turbulent diffusion of magnetic fields, we develop a unified treatment of the kinematic and nonlinear stages of turbulent dynamo, and study the dynamo process…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Siyao Xu , A. Lazarian

Turbulence dynamo deals with amplification of a seed magnetic field in a turbulent medium and has been studied mostly for uniform or spatially homogeneous seed magnetic fields. However, some astrophysical processes (e.g. jets from active…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jungyeon Cho , Hyunju Yoo

A new magnetic field generation mechanism in electrostatic shocks is found, which can produce fields with magnetic energy density as high as 0.01 of the kinetic energy density of the flows on time scales $ \tilde \, 10^4 \,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Stockem , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

The origin and maintenance of large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is discussed. A popular idea is that cosmic batteries generate seed magnetic fields which were amplified by magnetic induction due to turbulent motions, at times…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Kandaswamy Subramanian

Magnetized plasmas with equilibrium density gradients support drift-wave turbulence, which is often regulated by self-generated zonal flows. In this work, we experimentally examine the effect of increasing the magnetic field on turbulence…

We analyze the linear growth of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in the short time limit using nonmodal methods. Our findings are quite different to standard results, illustrating that shearing wave energy can grow at the maximum MRI…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Jonathan Squire , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Using a closure model for the evolution of magnetic correlations, we uncover an interesting plausible saturated state of the small-scale fluctuation dynamo (SSD) and a novel anology between quantum mechanical tunneling and the generation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kandaswamy Subramanian

The nature and origin of turbulence and magnetic fields in the intergalactic space are important problems that are yet to be understood. We propose a scenario in which turbulent flow motions are induced via the cascade of the vorticity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Jungyeon Cho , Santabrata Das

Observations of protostellar disks indicate the presence of the magnetic field of thermal (or superthermal) strength. In such a strong magnetic field, many MHD instabilities responsible for turbulent transport of the angular momentum are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

The effects of uniform horizontal shear on a stably stratified layer of gas is studied. The system is initially destabilized by a magnetically buoyant flux tube pointing in the cross-stream direction. The shear amplifies the initial field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Violaine Vermersch , Axel Brandenburg

Magnetic dynamo action caused by the magnetorotational instability is studied in the shearing-box approximation with no imposed net magnetic flux. Consistent with recent studies, the dynamo action is found to be sensitive to the aspect…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-28 Justin Walker , Stanislav Boldyrev

Generation of magnetic field energy, without mean field generation, is studied. Isotropic mirror-symmetric turbulence of a conducting fluid amplifies the energy of small-scale magnetic perturbations if the magnetic Reynolds number is high,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Gruzinov , S. Cowley , R. Sudan

We propose a model for Diffusive Shock Acceleration (DSA) in which stochastic magnetic fields in the shock precursor are generated through purely fluid mechanisms of a so-called small-scale dynamo. This contrasts with previous DSA models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Beresnyak , T. W. Jones , A. Lazarian

Hydromagnetic dynamo theory provides the prevailing theoretical description for the origin of magnetic fields in the universe. Here we consider the problem of kinematic, small-scale dynamo action driven by a random, incompressible,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 Joanne Mason , Leonid Malyshkin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo

In this paper we show that the Universe is already strongly magnetized at very early epochs during cosmic evolution. Our calculations are based on the efficient amplification of weak magnetic seed fields, which are unavoidably present in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-09 Jacques M. Wagstaff , Robi Banerjee , Dominik Schleicher , Guenter Sigl

To advance our understanding of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) processes in liquid metals, in this paper we propose an approach combining the classical methods in the dynamo theory based on numerical simulations of the partial differential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-16 Francisco Stefano de Almeida , Roman Chertovskih , Sílvio Gama , Rui Gonçalves

We provide a theory of dynamo ($\alpha$ effect) and momentum transport in three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics. For the first time, we show that the $\alpha$ effect is severely reduced by the shear even in the absence of magnetic field.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-06-12 Nicolas Leprovost , Eun-Jin Kim

We use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of the helically forced magnetohydrodynamic equations in spherical shell segments in order to study the effects of changes in the geometrical shape and size of the domain on the growth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Dhrubaditya Mitra , Reza Tavakol , Axel Brandenburg , David Moss

We present a new magnetic field generation mechanism in underdense plasmas driven by the beating of two, co-propagating, Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) orbital angular momentum (OAM) laser pulses with different frequencies and also different twist…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Y. Shi , J. Vieira , R. M. G. M. Trines , R. Bingham , B. F. Shen , R. J. Kingham

Magnetic field generation in three-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of an electrically conducting fluid is studied numerically by fixing the Prandtl number at $P=0.3$ and varying the Rayleigh number (Ra) as a control parameter. A…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 R. Chertovskih , E. L. Rempel , E. V. Chimanski