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Based on ideas by Woodward et al., a subgrid scale model that is applicable to highly compressible turbulence is presented. Applying the subgrid scale model in large eddy simulations of forced supersonic turbulence, the bottleneck effect is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-10-02 Wolfram Schmidt

The theory of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence predicts that Alfv\'enic and slow-mode-like compressive fluctuations are energetically decoupled at small scales in the inertial range. The partition of energy between these fluctuations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-10 Y. Kawazura , A. A. Schekochihin , M. Barnes , W. Dorland , S. A. Balbus

Turbulence in the magnetized plasma is well understood to be the consequence of wave interactions. When the Hall effect is added to the minimum magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the MHD waves become dispersive and different nonlinear interactions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Erik C. Hansen , Prerana Sharma , Swadesh M. Mahajan

In this work the influence of the chiral anomaly effect on the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence was studied. We argue that in the early universe, before the electroweak symmetry breaking, and for temperatures high enough such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Petar Pavlović , Natacha Leite , Günter Sigl

Magnetised plasma turbulence pervades the universe and is likely to play an important role in a variety of astrophysical settings. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest theoretical framework in which phenomenological models for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Joanne Mason , Jean C. Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo

In fluid turbulence, energy is transferred from a scale to another by an energy cascade that depends only on the energy dissipation rate. It leads by dimensional arguments to the Kolmogorov 1941 (K41) spectrum. Remarkably the normal modes…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-19 Gustavo Düring , Christophe Josserand , Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergio Rica

Plasma turbulence is a ubiquitous dynamical process that transfers energy across many spatial and temporal scales and affects energetic particle transport. Recent advances in the understanding of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Ka Ho Yuen , Mijie Shi

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

Various exact laws governing compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall-MHD (CHMHD) turbulence have been derived in recent years. Other than their fundamental theoretical interest, these laws are generally used to estimate the energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 R. Ferrand , F. Sahraoui , S. Galtier , N. Andrés , P. Mininni , P. Dmitruk

Many astrophysical fluids are magnetized and turbulent. Such fluids can be often described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In this review, we mainly consider MHD turbulence with a strong mean magnetic field whose energy density is greater…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Jungyeon Cho

A wide variety of astrophysical phenomena involve the flow of turbulent magnetized gas with relativistic velocity or energy density. Examples include gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, pulsars, magnetars, micro-quasars, merging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

Radio-wave scintillation observations reveal a nearly Kolmogorov spectrum of density fluctuations in the ionized interstellar medium. Although this density spectrum is suggestive of turbulence, no theory relevant to its interpretation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yoram Lithwick , Peter Goldreich

Previous studies have established that a weak-to-strong transition occurs in Alfvenic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence as energy cascades from large to small scales. However, the spatiotemporal (frequency-wavenumber) properties of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Chuanpeng Hou , Ka Ho Yuen

Magnetic helicity plays a tremendously important role when it is different from zero on average. Most notably, it leads to the phenomenon of an inverse cascade. Here, we consider decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence as well as some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Axel Brandenburg , Gustav Larsson

We study the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence taking into account the chiral anomaly effect. This chiral magnetohydrodynamic description of the plasma is expected to be relevant for temperatures comparable to the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-23 Petar Pavlović , Günter Sigl

It is well-known that magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical environments. The correct understanding of the fundamental properties of MHD turbulence is a prerequisite for revealing many key astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-18 Jianfu Zhang , Ruyue Wang

Magnetic holes (MHs) are coherent structures characterized by a strong and localized magnetic field amplitude dip, commonly observed in the solar wind and planetary magnetosheaths. These structures come in different sizes, from…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Joaquín Espinoza-Troni , Giuseppe Arrò , Felipe A Asenjo , Pablo S Moya

Recent analytical works on strong magnetized plasma turbulence have hypothesized the existence of a range of scales where the tearing instability may govern the energy cascade. In this paper, we estimate the conditions under which such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Nuno F. Loureiro , Stanislav Boldyrev

We present the first study of the multiscaling of time-dependent velocity and magnetic-field structure functions in homogeneous, isotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in three dimensions. We generalize the formalism that has been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-08 Samriddhi Sankar Ray , Ganapati Sahoo , Rahul Pandit

Topological implications of the total generalized electron-flow magnetic helicity He in electron magnetohydrodynamics(EMHD) are explored. The invariance of He is shown to imply the invariance of the sum of the linkage of the magnetic field…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 B. K. Shivamoggi , M. Michalak