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Magnetic fields, compressibility and turbulence are important factors in many terrestrial and astrophysical processes. While energy dynamics, i.e. how energy is transferred within and between kinetic and magnetic reservoirs, has been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith , Wolfram Schmidt , Andrew Christlieb

We perform direct 3-dimensional numerical simulations for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a periodic box of size $2\pi$ threaded by strong uniform magnetic fields. We use a pseudo-spectral code with hyperviscosity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jungyeon Cho , Ethan T. Vishniac

We analyze the anisotropy of turbulence in an electrically conducting fluid in the presence of a uniform magnetic field, for low magnetic Reynolds number, using the quasi-static approximation. In the linear limit, the kinetic energy of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-01 Benjamin F. N. Favier , Fabien S. Godeferd , Claude Cambon , Alexandre Delache

We find and investigate via numerical simulations self-sustained two-dimensional turbulence in a magnetohydrodynamic flow with a maximally simple configuration: plane, noninflectional (with a constant shear of velocity) and threaded by a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 G. R. Mamatsashvili , D. Z. Gogichaishvili , G. D. Chagelishvili , W. Horton

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

Ensemble averaged high resolution direct numerical simulations of reverse spectral transfer are presented, extending on the many single realization numerical studies done up to now. This identifies this type of spectral transfer as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-06 Arjun Berera , Moritz Linkmann

The inverse transfer of magnetic helicity is investigated through direct numerical simulations of large-scale-mechanically-driven turbulent flows in the isothermal ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) framework. The mechanical forcing is either…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Wolf-Christian Müller

We investigate the critical transition from an inverse cascade of energy to a forward energy cascade in a two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic flow as the ratio of magnetic to mechanical forcing amplitude is varied. It is found that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-09 Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Alexandros Alexakis

In this paper, we study the development of anisotropy in strong MHD turbulence in the presence of a large scale magnetic field B 0 by analyzing the results of direct numerical simulations. Our results show that the developed anisotropy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Sita Sundar , Mahendra K. Verma , Alexandros Alexakis , Anando G. Chatterjee

We present a new analysis of the anisotropic spectral energy distribution in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence permeated by a strong mean magnetic field. The turbulent flow is generated by high-resolution pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roland Grappin , Wolf-Christian Müller

We study the energy transfer properties of three dimensional homogeneous and isotropic turbulence where the non-linear transfer is altered in a way that helicity is made sign-definite, say positive. In this framework, known as homochiral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-01 Antoine Briard , Luca Biferale , Thomas Gomez

Decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is important in various astrophysical contexts, including early universe magnetic fields, star formation, turbulence in galaxy clusters, magnetospheres and solar corona. Previously known in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 Shreya Dwivedi , Chandranathan Anandavijayan , Pallavi Bhat

The inverse transfer of magnetic helicity is a fundamental process which may explain large scale magnetic structure formation and sustainement. Until very recently, direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the inverse transfer in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Wolf-Christian Müller

We investigate the influence of a uniform magnetic field ${\bf B_0}=B_0 e//$ on energy decay laws in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. The nonlinear transfer reduction along $B_0$ is included in a model that distinguishes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara Bigot , Sebastien Galtier , Helene Politano

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence regulates the transfer of energy from large to small scales in many astrophysical systems, including the solar atmosphere. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations with unprecedentedly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-30 Chuanfei Dong , Liang Wang , Yi-Min Huang , Luca Comisso , Timothy A. Sandstrom , Amitava Bhattacharjee

A fluid system is derived to describe electrostatic magnetized plasma turbulence at scales somewhat larger than the Larmor radius of a given species. It is related to the Hasegawa- Mima equation, but does not conserve enstrophy, and, as a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 G. G. Plunk

The energy spectrum and the nolinear cascade rates of MHD turbulence is not clearly understood. We have addressed this problem using direct numerical simulation and analytical calculations. Our numerical simulations indicate that…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Mahendra K. Verma , Gaurav Dar

A non-local cascade model for anisotropic MHD turbulence in the presence of a guiding magnetic field is proposed. The model takes into account that (a) energy cascades in an anisotropic manner and as a result a different estimate for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexandros Alexakis

Isotropic homogeneous hydromagnetic turbulence is studied using numerical simulations at resolutions of up to 1024^3 meshpoints. It is argued that, in contrast to the kinematic regime, the nonlinear regime is characterized by a spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandenburg , N. E. L. Haugen , W. Dobler

We perform direct numerical simulations of quasi-static magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, and compute various energy transfers including the ring-to-ring and conical energy transfers, and the energy fluxes of the perpendicular and parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-03 K. Sandeep Reddy , Raghwendra Kumar , Mahendra K. Verma