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Fluid turbulence is a far-from-equilibrium phenomenon and remains one of the most challenging problems in physics. Two-dimensional, fully developed turbulence may possess the largest possible symmetry, the conformal symmetry. We focus on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-14 Jun Nian , Xiaoquan Yu , Jinwu Ye

Fast magnetosonic waves are among the fundamental oscillation modes of astrophysical plasmas. To study their dynamics, we carry out numerical simulations of the wave turbulence kinetic equation, which describes the evolution of the energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Nicolás Pablo Müller , Sébastien Galtier

The physics of turbulence in magnetized plasmas remains an unresolved problem. The most poorly understood aspect is intermittency -- spatio-temporal fluctuations superimposed on the self-similar turbulent motions. We employ a novel…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Trung Ha , Joonas Nättilä , Jordy Davelaar , Lorenzo Sironi

Turbulence in curved spacetimes in general, and in the vicinity of black holes (BHs) in particular, represents a poorly understood phenomenon that is often analysed employing techniques developed for flat spacetimes. We here propose a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Rita Megale , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Giuseppe Ficarra , Mario Imbrogno , Claudio Meringolo , Leonardo Primavera , Luciano Rezzolla , Sergio Servidio

A crucial issue in relativistic plasma, particularly relevant in the astrophysical context, is the description of highly magnetized plasmas based on a covariant formulation of gyrokinetic dynamics. An interesting case in question is that in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Tessarotto , Claudio Cremaschini , Piero Nicolini , Alexei Beklemishev

Zonal flows and turbulence spreading play important roles in magnetic fusion plasma confinement, yet their coupling mechanisms remain elusive. Using global nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations, we show that turbulence spreading transports…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Min Ki Jung , Sumin Yi , Taik Soo Hahm , Yong-Su Na

We studied the macroscopic statistical properties on the freely evolving quasi-elastic hard disk (granular) system by performing a large-scale (up to a few million particles) event-driven molecular dynamics systematically and found that…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-05-05 Masaharu Isobe

The dimensional transition in turbulent jets of a shear-thinning fluid is studied via direct numerical simulations. Our findings reveal that under vertical confinement, the flow exhibits a unique mixed-dimensional (or 2.5D) state, where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-20 Christian Amor , Giovanni Soligo , Andrea Mazzino , Marco Edoardo Rosti

We investigate the possibility of generating and studying turbulence in plasma by means of high-energy density laser-driven experiments. Our focus is to create supersonic, self-magnetized turbulence with characteristics that resemble those…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Timothy Handy , Tomasz Plewa , R. Paul Drake , Andrey Zhiglo

We study a finite Larmor radius model used to describe the ions distributions in the core of a toka-mak plasma, that consist in a gyro-kinetic transport equation, coupled with an electro-neutrality equation. Since the last equation do not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-10 Maxime Hauray , Anne Nouri

The scale-invariant inverse energy cascade is a hallmark of 2D turbulence, with its theoretical energy spectrum observed in both direct numerical simulations (DNS) and laboratory experiments. Under this scale-invariance assumption, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-20 Julie Meunier , Basile Gallet

Simulations of plasma turbulence in a linear plasma device configuration are presented. These simulations are based on a simplified version of the gyrokinetic (GK) model proposed by B. J. Frei et al. [J. Plasma Phys. 86, 905860205 (2020)]…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 B. J. Frei , J. Mencke , P. Ricci

Superfluid turbulence, often referred to as quantum turbulence, is a fascinating phenomenon for which a satisfactory theoretical framework is lacking. Holographic duality provides a systematic new approach to studying quantum turbulence by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-20 Allan Adams , Paul M. Chesler , Hong Liu

This letter presents the first ab initio, fully electromagnetic, kinetic simulations of magnetized turbulence in a homogeneous, weakly collisional plasma at the scale of the ion Larmor radius (ion gyroscale). Magnetic and electric-field…

The transfer of turbulent energy through an inertial range from the driving scale to dissipative scales in a kinetic plasma followed by the conversion of this energy into heat is a fundamental plasma physics process. A theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. G. Howes

Classical shell models of turbulence do not display dual cascade - inverse of energy and direct of enstrophy - because they fail to reproduce the right thermal spectra. We propose here a multi-branch shell model, including a geometry…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-13 Flavio Tuteri , Sergio Chibbaro , Alexandros Alexakis

Turbulent cascades characterize the transfer of energy injected by a random force at large scales towards the small scales. In hydrodynamic turbulence, when the Reynolds number is large, the velocity field of the fluid becomes irregular and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Gabriel B. Apolinário , Geoffrey Beck , Laurent Chevillard , Isabelle Gallagher , Ricardo Grande

We address three two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics models: reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD), Hazeltine's model, and the Charney--Hasegawa--Mima (CHM) equation. These models are derived to capture the basic features of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Klas Modin , Michael Roop

Recent fully nonlinear, kinetic three-dimensional simulations of magnetic reconnection [Daughton et al. 2011] evolve structures and exhibit dynamics on multiple scales, in a manner reminiscent of turbulence. These simulations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Leonardis , S. C. Chapman , W. Daughton , V. Roytershteyn , H. Karimabadi

The goal of this paper is to understand from a mathematical point of view the magnetic confinement of plasmas for fusion. Following Fr\'enod and Sonnendr\"ucker \cite{FS2}, we first use two-scale convergence tools to derive a gyrokinetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Daniel Han-Kwan