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We argue that the existence of an inhomogeneous external magnetic field can lead to radial flow in transverse plane. Our aim is to show how the introduction of a magnetic field generalizes the Bjorken flow. We investigate the effect of an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-03 M. Haddadi Moghaddam , B. Azadegan , A. F. Kord , W. M. Alberico

We numerically demonstrate the feasibility of kinematic fast dynamos for a class of time-periodic axisymmetric flows of conducting fluid confined inside a sphere. The novelty of our work is in considering the realistic flows, which are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-19 I. V. Khalzov , C. M. Cooper , C. B. Forest

Large-scale planetary or stellar magnetic fields generated by a dynamo effect are mostly attributed to flows forced by buoyancy forces in electrically conducting fluid layers. However, these large-scale fields may also be controlled by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 David Cébron , Rainer Hollerbach

We consider the conditions under which a rotating magnetic object can produce a magnetically powered outflow in an initially unmagnetized medium stratified under gravity. 3D MHD simulations are presented in which the footpoints of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Moll

We present a magneto-hydrodynamic model developed for investigations of advective non-stationary, asymmetric Keplerian accretion disks in the normal magnetic field. The introduced model allows us to trace the evolution in different fixed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-19 Krasimira Yankova , Lachezar Filipov

The instability of a quasi-Kepler flow in dissipative Taylor-Couette systems under the presence of an homogeneous axial magnetic field is considered with focus to the excitation of nonaxisymmetric modes and the resulting angular momentum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Gellert , G. Rüdiger , M. Schultz

The rotational dynamics of magnetic nano particles in rotating magnetic fields in the presence of thermal noise is studied both theoretically and by performing numerical calculations. Kinetic equations for the dynamics of particles with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-29 Klaus D. Usadel

At low temperatures, in very clean two-dimensional (2D) samples the electron mean free path for collisions with static defects and phonons becomes greater than the sample width. Under this condition, the electron transport occurs by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 P. S. Alekseev

Transient interaction of magnetic dipole with plasma flow carrying southward magnetic field is studied in laboratory experiment. The flow with transverse frozen-in field is generated by means of laser-produced plasma cross-field expansion…

Several teams have reported peculiar frequency spectra for flows in a spherical shell. To address their origin, we perform numerical simulations of the spherical Couette flow in a dipolar magnetic field, in the configuration of the DTS…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Aldo Figueroa , Nathanaël Schaeffer , Henri-Claude Nataf , Denys Schmitt

We present a numerical model in which a cold pair plasma is ejected with relativistic speed through a polar cap region and flows almost radially outside the light cylinder. Stationary axisymmetric structures of electromagnetic fields and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-23 Yasufumi Kojima , Junpei Oogi

This paper presents simulations of the 2d model developed by Poth\'erat at al (\emph{J. Fluid Mech}, 2000) for MHD flows between two planes with a strong transverse homogeneous and steady magnetic field, accounting for moderate inertial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-23 Alban Pothérat , Joël Sommeria , René Moreau

We present an experiment where three mesoscopic soft ferromagnetic beads are placed onto a liquid surface and submitted to the influence of magnetic fields. A vertical magnetic field creates a repulsion which counterbalances the capillary…

A quantum mechanical close coupling theory of spin relaxation in the stretched hyperfine level of sodium is presented. We calculate the dipolar relaxation rate of magnetically trapped cold sodium atoms in the magnetic field. The influence…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Zygelman

We study a two-dimensional fluid of dipolar hard disks by Monte Carlo simulations in a square with periodic boundary conditions and on the surface of a sphere. The theory of the dielectric constant and the asymptotic behaviour of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 Jean-Michel Caillol , Jean-Jacques Weis

Fluctuations of the alpha-effect which break equatorial symmetry of the flow in the kinematic Parker's dynamo are considered. We show, that even small (a few percents) fluctuation can leed to the substantial assymmetry of the magnetic field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-03 M. Reshetnyak , D. Sokoloff

We investigate the magnetohydrodynamics in the presence of an external magnetic field following the power-law decay in proper time and having spatial inhomogeneity characterized by a Gaussian distribution in one of transverse coordinates…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Shi Pu , Di-Lun Yang

In an experiment on a magnetic dipole interacting with a laser-produced plasma the generation of an intense field aligned current (FAC) system was observed for the first time in a laboratory. The detailed measurements of the total value and…

We investigate the generation of intrinsically asymmetric or {\it one-sided} outflows or jets from disk accretion onto rotating stars with complex magnetic fields using axisymmetric (2.5D) magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The intrinsic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba

Choosing a simple class of flows, with characteristics that may be present in the Earth's core, we study the ability to generate a magnetic field when the flow is permitted to oscillate periodically in time. The flow characteristics are…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ashley P. Willis , David Gubbins