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The density fluctuation spectrum in the solar wind reveals a Kolmogorov-like scaling with a spectral slope of -5/3 in wavenumber space. The energy transfer process in the magnetized solar wind, characterized typically by MHD turbulence,…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank

In the approximation of linear dissipative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) it can be shown that driven MHD waves in magnetic plasmas with high Reynolds number exhibit a near resonant behaviour if the frequency of the wave becomes equal to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-18 C. T. M. Clack , I. Ballai , M. S. Ruderman

Alfv\'en waves propagate in electrically conducting fluids in the presence of a magnetic field. Their reflection properties depend on the ratio between the kinematic viscosity and the magnetic diffusivity of the fluid, also known as the…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-10-17 Nathanaël Schaeffer , Dominique Jault , Philippe Cardin , Marie Drouard

This brief invited review provides an introduction to key ideas in the theory of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Over past ten years a variety of jet-like phenomena were detected in the solar atmosphere, including plasma ejections over a range of coronal temperatures being observed as extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray jets. We study the possibility…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 I. Zhelyazkov , R. Chandra , A. K. Srivastava

The Comments are devoted to the recently published paper 'Modelling and nonclassical symmetry analysis of a complex porous media flow in a dilating channel' (Physica D. 481 (2025) 134834), in which a model describing an unsteady…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-13 Roman Cherniha

We present a linear stability analysis of the perturbation modes in anisotropic MHD flows with velocity shear and strong magnetic field. Collisionless or weakly collisional plasma is described within the 16-momentum MHD fluid closure model,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 E. S. Uchava , B. M. Shergelashvili , A. G. Tevzadze , S. Poedts

We consider the transport of passive admixture in locally homogeneous isotropic reflectionally noninvariant turbulence of incompressible fluid. It is shown that anomalous convective flow appears which direction does not coincide with that…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 A. V. Chechkin , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

We develop a two dimensional, self-consistent, compressible fluid model to study evolution of Alfvenic modes in partially ionized astrophysical and space plasmas. The partially ionized plasma consists mainly of electrons, ions and…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dastgeer Shaikh

We consider the corrugation instability of the self-similar flow with an accelerating shock in the highly relativistic regime. We derive the correct dispersion relation for the proper modes in the self-similar regime, and conclude that this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Giuseppe Palma , Mario Vietri

Motivated by the work of D. Hoff and K. Zumbrun (Indiana Univ. Math. J. 44: 603-676, 1995), we investigate the diffusion wave phenomena in three-dimensional incompressible viscoelastic flows. By employing the representation formula of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Shenghan Li , Yong Wang

We present numerical studies of 3-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a strongly magnetized medium in the extremely relativistic limit, in which the inertia of the charge carriers can be neglected. We have focused on strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jungyeon Cho

We analyse the effects of the propagating Alfv\'en waves, arising due to non-zero mean magnetic fields, on the nonequilibrium steady states of three-dimensional (3d) homogeneous Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. In particular, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Abhik Basu , Jayanta K Bhattacharjee

Alfv\'enic interactions which transfer energy from large to small spatial scales lie at the heart of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. An important feature of the turbulence is the generation of negative residual energy -- excess energy in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 S. Dorfman , M. Abler , S. Boldyrev , C. H. K. Chen , S. Greess

The Lorentz force induced by the magnetic field in MHD flow introduces a fundamental difference from pure gas dynamics by facilitating the anisotropic propagation of small disturbances, thus the type of steady MHD equations depends on not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Shangkun Weng , Wengang Yang

In a recent Letter, Luo, Du and Huang reported a novel convective instability driven by a force rarely studied before -- that exerted by an external magnetic field on a strongly magnetizable liquid. The associated physics is surprisingly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Mario Liu

We investigate diffusion in supersonic, turbulent, compressible flows. Supersonic turbulence can be characterized as network of interacting shocks. We consider flows with different rms Mach numbers and where energy necessary to maintain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralf S. Klessen , Doug N. C. Lin

The generation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and their instabilities are studied in galactic gaseous rotating plasmas with the effects of the magnetic field, the self gravity, the diffusion-convection of cosmic rays as well as the gas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Jyoti Turi , A. P. Misra

In the paradigm of magnetic acceleration of relativistic outflows, a crucial point is identifying a viable mechanism to convert the Poynting flux into the kinetic energy of the plasma, and eventually into the observed radiation. Since the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Emanuele Sobacchi , Yuri E. Lyubarsky

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