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We discuss a few recent developments that are important for understanding of MHD turbulence. First, MHD turbulence is not so messy as it is usually believed. In fact, the notion of strong non-linear coupling of compressible and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Lazarian , J. Cho

Aims. We investigated plasma turbulence in the context of solar wind. We concentrated on properties of ideal second-order magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall MHD invariants. Methods. We studied the results of a two-dimensional hybrid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Petr Hellinger , Victor Montagud-Camps

The fully three dimensional governing equations in the electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) regime for a plasma with inhomogeneous density is obtained. These equations in the two dimensional (2-D) limit can be cast in terms of the evolution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sharad Kumar Yadav , Amita Das , Predhiman Kaw

The free decay of non-helical relativistic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is studied numerically, and found to exhibit cascading of magnetic energy toward large scales. Evolution of the magnetic energy spectrum $P_M(k,t)$ is self-similar in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Jonathan Zrake

We present a model for nonlinear decay of the weak wave in three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We show that the decay rate is different for parallel and perpendicular waves. We provide a general formula…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Andrey Beresnyak , Alex Lazarian

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

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

(Abridged) We consider dynamics and turbulent interaction of whistler modes within the framework of inertialess electron MHD (EMHD). We argue there is no energy principle in EMHD: any stationary closed configuration is neutrally stable. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Maxim Lyutikov

In magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, the large-scale magnetic field sets a preferred local direction for the small-scale dynamics, altering the statistics of turbulence from the isotropic case. This happens even in the absence of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Vladimir Zhdankin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Joanne Mason

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

We analyze the spectral properties of driven, supersonic compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence obtained via high-resolution numerical experiments, for application to understanding the dynamics of giant molecular clouds. Via…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jason G. Vestuto , Eve C. Ostriker , James M. Stone

The theory of mean field electrodynamics for diffusive processes in Electron Magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) model is presented. In contrast to Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) the evolution of magnetic field here is governed by a nonlinear equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Amita Das , P. H. Diamond

Simulations of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are performed with a fluid and a kinetic code. The initial condition is an ensemble of long-wavelength, counter-propagating, shear-Alfv\'{e}n waves, which interact and rapidly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 K. D. Makwana , V. Zhdankin , H. Li , W. Daughton , F. Cattaneo

The statistical properties of the dissipation process constrain the analysis of large scale numerical simulations of three dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, such as those of Biskamp and Muller [Phys. Plasmas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Merrifield , W. -C. Muller , S. C. Chapman , R. O. Dendy

We analyze the decay laws of the kinetic and magnetic energies and the evolution of correlation lengths in freely decaying incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Scale invariance of MHD equations assures that, in the case of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Leonardo Campanelli

We derive the coarse-graining (CG) equations of incompressible Hall Magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) turbulence to investigate the {\it local (in space)} energy cascade rate as a function of the filtering scale $\ell$. First, the CG equations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Davide Manzini , Fouad Sahraoui , Francesco Califano , Renaud Ferrand

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

Turbulence is characterized by the non-linear cascades of energy and other inviscid invariants across a huge range of scales, from where they are injected to where they are dissipated. Recently, new experimental, numerical and theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-10 A. Alexakis , L. Biferale

Estimation of the energy cascade rate in the inertial range of solar wind turbulence has been done so far mostly within the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) theory. Here, we go beyond that approximation to include plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 L. Z. Hadid , F. Sahraoui , S. Galtier

We present results from a systematic numerical study of structural properties of an unforced, incompressible, homogeneous, and isotropic three-dimensional turbulent fluid with an initial energy spectrum that develops a cascade of kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chirag Kalelkar