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The set of equations for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in a shear flow is consecutively derived. The proposed scenario involves the presence of a self-sustained turbulence and magnetic field. In the framework of Langevin--Burgers approach…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-27 T. M. Mishonov , Y. G. Maneva , Z. D. Dimitrov , T. S. Hristov

We study the propagation of a fast magnetoacoustic wave in a 3D magnetic field created from two magnetic dipoles. The magnetic topology contains an X-line. We aim to contribute to the overall understanding of MHD wave propagation within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-11 J. A. McLaughlin , G. J. J. Botha , S. Regnier , D. L. Spoors

As a shock front interacts with turbulence, it develops corrugation which induces outgoing wave modes in the downstream plasma. For a fast shock wave, the incoming wave modes can either be fast magnetosonic waves originating from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 M. Lemoine , O. Ramos , L. Gremillet

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is an important agent of energetic particle acceleration. Focusing on the compressible properties of magnetic turbulence, we adopt test particle method to study the particle acceleration from Alfv\'en,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Jianfu Zhang , Fuyuan Xiang

Two types of Eulerian action principles for relativistic extended magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) are formulated. With the first, the action is extremized under the constraints of density, entropy, and Lagrangian label conservation, which leads…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Yohei Kawazura , George Miloshevich , Philip J. Morrison

Non-central heavy-ion collisions generate the strongest magnetic field of the order of $10^{18}-10^{19}$ Gauss due to the electric current produced by the positively charged spectators that travel at nearly the speed of light. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-25 Duan She , Ze Fang Jiang , De-fu Hou , C. B. Yang

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations of incompressible viscous fluids with finite electrical conductivity describe the motion of viscous electrically conducting fluids in a magnetic field. In this paper, we find twelve families of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-08-26 Bintao Cao

Turbulence in an incompressible fluid with and without a magnetic field as well as moderately compressible MHD turbulence are compared. For the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models the probability distribution functions of the velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas Hall , G. Kowal , A. Lazarian , Jungyeon Cho

The heliosphere is predominantly a partially ionized plasma that consists of electrons, ions and significant neutral atoms. Nonlinear interactions amongst these species take place through direct collision or charge exchange processes. These…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. E. Kellum , Dastgeer Shaikh

We present the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics coupled to dynamical electromagnetic fields, including the effects of polarization, electric fields, and the derivative expansion. We enumerate the transport coefficients at leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-10 Juan Hernandez , Pavel Kovtun

Torsional Alfv\'en waves in coronal plasma loops are usually considered to be non-collective, i.e. consist of cylindrical surfaces evolving independently, which significantly complicates their detection in observations. This non-collective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 S. A. Belov , D. I. Riashchikov , D. Y. Kolotkov , S. Vasheghani Farahani , N. E. Molevich , V. V. Bezrukovs

The constraint of incompressibility is often used to simplify the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description of linearized plasma dynamics because it does not affect the ideal MHD marginal stability point. In this paper two methods for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. F. McMillan , R. L. Dewar , R. G. Storer

In this work we investigate the characteristics of the group velocity of obliquely propagating Alfv\'en waves in a dusty plasma typical of a stellar wind. The dispersion relation is derived with the aid of the kinetic theory for a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 L. B. De Toni , R. Gaelzer , L. F. Ziebell

The generation of turbulence at magnetized shocks and its subsequent interaction with the latter is a key question of plasma- and high-energy astrophysics. This paper presents two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a fast shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-09 Camilia Demidem , Martin Lemoine , Fabien Casse

By writing the complete set of $3 + 1$ (ADM) equations for linearized waves, we are able to demonstrate the properties of the initial data and of the evolution of a wave problem set by Alcubierre and Schutz. We show that the gauge modes and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Richard A. Matzner , Mijan Huq , Alonso Botero , Dae Il Choi , Ullar Kask , Juan Lara , Steven Liebling , David Neilsen , Premana Premadi , Deirdre Shoemaker

We present direct numerical simulations and alpha-model simulations of four familiar three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence effects: selective decay, dynamic alignment, inverse cascade of magnetic helicity, and the helical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. D. Mininni , D. C. Montgomery , A. Pouquet

The multi-fluid modelling of high-frequency waves in partially ionized plasmas has shown that the behavior of magnetohydrodynamics waves in the linear regime is heavily influenced by the collisional interaction between the different species…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

We present high resolution numerical simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We concentrate on studies of spectra and anisotropy of velocity and density. We describe a technique of separating different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

We study the evolution of non-linear circularly polarised Alfven waves by solving numerically the time-dependent equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in one dimension. We examine the behaviour of the waves and find that different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rim Turkmani , Ulf Torkelsson

We construct and study global solutions for the 3-dimensional incompressible MHD systems with arbitrary small viscosity. In particular, we provide a rigorous justification for the following dynamical phenomenon observed in many contexts:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Ling-Bing He , Li Xu , Pin Yu