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Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence affects both terrestrial and astrophysical plasmas. The properties of magnetized turbulence must be better understood to more accurately characterize these systems. This work presents ideal MHD simulations of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-28 Forrest W. Glines , Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea

Using direct numerical simulations (DNSs), the interaction between linear waves and turbulence under the compressible magnetohydrodynamic (CMHD) approach was studied. A set of DNSs in three dimensions for a spatial resolution of $128^3$ and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Maia Brodiano , Nahuel Andrés , Pablo Dmitruk

The present work studies the isotropic and homogeneous turbulence for incompressible fluids through a specific Lyapunov analysis, assuming that the turbulence is due to the bifurcations associated to the velocity field. The analysis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-12 Nicola de Divitiis

We analyze 3D numerical simulations of driven incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a periodic box threaded by a moderately strong external magnetic field. We sum over nonlinear interactions within Fourier wavebands and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , Alex Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

Recent studies provide evidence for the multi-scale nature of magnetic turbulence in the plasma sheet. Wavelet methods represent modern time series analysis techniques suitable for the description of statistical characteristics of…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 W. Baumjohann , R. Nakamura , A. Runov , M. Volwerk , T. L. Zhang , A. Balogh

We investigate the Lagrangian properties of homogeneous, stratified turbulence at different Brunt-V\"ais\"al\"a frequencies.We show increasing vertical confinement of trajectories with increasing stratification strength highlighting the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-31 Arun Kumar Varanasi

Due to the nonlinear interaction between different flow patterns, for instance, ocean current, meso-scale eddies, waves, etc, the movement of ocean is extremely complex, where a multiscale statistics is then relevant. In this work, a high…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 Liru Lin , Wei Zhuang , Yongxiang Huang

Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial plasmas but no universal theory exists. Even the detailed energy dynamics in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are still not well understood. We present a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-06 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

We investigate the properties of plasma turbulence by means of two-dimensional Hall-magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) and hybrid particle-in-cell (HPIC) numerical simulations. We find that HMHD simulations exhibit spectral properties that are in…

A novel investigation of the nature of intermittency in incompressible, homogeneous and isotropic turbulence is performed by a numerical study of the Navier-Stokes equations constrained on a fractal Fourier set. The robustness of the energy…

A deterministic multi-scale dynamical system is introduced and discussed as prototype model for relative dispersion in stationary, homogeneous and isotropic turbulence. Unlike stochastic diffusion models, here trajectory transport and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-19 Guglielmo Lacorata , Angelo Vulpiani

We study the correlation function and mean linear response function of the velocity Fourier mode of statistically steady-state, homogeneous and isotropic turbulence in the Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates through direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-29 Takeshi Matsumoto , Michio Otsuki , Takeshi Ooshida , Susumu Goto

A novel model of wave turbulence is presented which allows to explain in the same frame various nonlinear wave phenomena: intermittency, form and direction of the energy cascades, formation of a zero-frequency band with non-zero energy,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 E. Kartashova

We consider the relationship between Eulerian modal decompositions and Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs). The model sensitivity framework developed by Kasz\'as and Haller (2020) is used to express data-driven modal representations of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Morgan R. Jones , Charles Klewicki , Oliver Khan , Steven L. Brunton , Mitul Luhar

Coherent structures in two-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence are ubiquitously observed in nature, experiments and numerical simulations. The present study conducts a comparison between several structure detection schemes based on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-31 Jiahan Wang , Jörn Sesterhenn , Wolf-Christian Müller

Spectral transfer processes in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are investigated analytically by decomposition of the velocity and magnetic fields in Fourier space into helical modes. Steady solutions of the dynamical system which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-18 Moritz F. Linkmann , Arjun Berera , Mairi E. McKay , Julia Jäger

The solar wind and the interstellar medium are permeated by large-scale magnetic fields that render magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence anisotropic. In the weak-turbulence limit in which three-wave interactions dominate, analytical and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-06 C. S. Ng , A. Bhattacharjee

Theoretical developments in the field of Lagrangian turbulence are made difficult by the fact that equations governing the evolution of lagrangian flows are implicit contrary to eulerian flows. In this article, an {\it exact} explicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-01 Olivier Poujade

The Lagrangian properties of the velocity field in a magnetized fluid are studied using three-dimensional simulations of a helical magnetohydrodynamic dynamo. We compute the attracting and repelling Lagrangian coherent structures, which are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Erico L. Rempel , Abraham C. -L. Chian , Axel Brandenburg

A simplified Lagrangean closure for the Navier-Stokes equation is used to study the production of intermittency in the inertial range of three dimensional turbulence. This is done using localized wavepackets following the fluid rather than…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Piero Olla