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A physically-based method to derive well-posed instances of the two-fluid transport equations for two-phase flow, from the Hamilton principle, is presented. The state of the two-fluid flow is represented by the superficial velocity and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 Alejandro Clausse , Martin Lopez de Bertodano

Fluctuation dynamos are generic to turbulent astrophysical systems. The only analytical model of the fluctuation dynamo, due to Kazantsev, assumes the velocity to be delta-correlated in time. This assumption breaks down for any realistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-22 Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian

We study magnetic field evolution in flows with fluctuating in time governing parameters in electrically conducting fluid. We use a standard mean-field approach to derive equations for large-scale magnetic field for the fluctuating ABC-flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , D. Sokoloff , D. Tomin

Aims: The test-field method for computing turbulent transport coefficients from simulations of hydromagnetic flows is extended to the regime with a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) background. Methods: A generalized set of test equations is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 M. Rheinhardt , A. Brandenburg

A linearised kinetic equation describing electrostatic perturbations of a Maxwellian equilibrium in a weakly collisional plasma forced by a random source is considered. The problem is treated as a kinetic analogue of the Langevin equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 A. Kanekar , A. A. Schekochihin , W. Dorland , N. F. Loureiro

Fluctuation dynamos are generic to astrophysical systems. The only analytical model of the fluctuation dynamo is Kazantsev model which assumes a delta-correlated in time velocity field. We derive a generalized model of fluctuation dynamo…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian

By using a set of scaling limits, the authors in \cite{ADFL,SS} proposed a framework of deriving the Hall-MHD equations from the two-fluids Euler-Maxwell equations for electrons and ions. In this paper, we derive the Hall-MHD equations from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Yi Peng , Huaqiao Wang , Qiuju Xu

A general derivation is proposed for several boundary conditions arisen in the lattice Boltzmann simulations of various physical problems. Pair-wise moment conservations are proposed to enforce the boundary conditions with given macroscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Jun Li , Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Zhe Feng , Chenglei Wang

The asymptotic structure of outflows from rotating magnetized objects confined by a uniform external pressure is calculated. The flow is assumed to be perfect MHD, polytropic, axisymmetric and stationary. The well known associated first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thibaut Lery , J. Heyvaerts , S. Appl , C. A. Norman

Hydromagnetic dynamo theory provides the prevailing theoretical description for the origin of magnetic fields in the universe. Here we consider the problem of kinematic, small-scale dynamo action driven by a random, incompressible,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 Joanne Mason , Leonid Malyshkin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo

It is shown that C-flows in Riemannian three-dimensional compact manifold can be naturally considered as generalized dynamo Arnold's metric in compact manifolds, the so-called cat map dynamo. The generalized solution of self-induction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-06 L Garcia de Andrade

We present a direct derivation of the typical time derivatives used in a continuum description of complex fluid flows, harnessing the principles of the kinematics of line elements. The evolution of the microstructural conformation tensor in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-12 Howard A. Stone , Michael J. Shelley , Evgeniy Boyko

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations of incompressible viscous fluids with finite electrical conductivity describe the motion of viscous electrically conducting fluids in a magnetic field. In this paper, we find twelve families of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-08-26 Bintao Cao

We present an extension of the multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics (MRxMHD) equilibrium model that includes plasma flow. This new model is a generalization of Woltjer's model of relaxed magnetohydrodynamics equilibria with flow. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-04-04 G. R. Dennis , S. R. Hudson , R. L. Dewar , M. J. Hole

In this paper, we investigate the similarity solutions for a steady laminar incompressible boundary layer equations governing the Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow near the forward stagnation point of two-dimensional and axisymmetric bodies.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-David Hoernel

Using a continuous unitary transformation recently proposed by Wegner \cite{Wegner} together with an approximation that neglects irrelevant contributions, we obtain flow equations for Hamiltonians. These flow equations yield a diagonal or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Stephan Kehrein , Andreas Mielke

For the equations of a planar magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) compressible flow with the viscosity depending on the specific volume of the gas and the heat conductivity being proportional to a positive power of the temperature, we obtain global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Yuebo Cao , Yi Peng , Ying Sun

The paper deals with a simple spherical mean-field dynamo model of $\alpha^2$-type in the case of high electrical conductivity. A spherically symmetric distribution of turbulent motions is assumed inside a spherical fluid body surrounded by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. -H. Raedler , U. Geppert

In this note we consider general formulation of Euler's equations for an inviscid incompressible homogeneous fluid with an oscillating body force. Our aim is to derive the averaged equations for these flows with the help of two-timing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 V. A. Vladimirov , N. Peake

In this paper we develop and use the two-timing method for a systematic study of a scalar advection caused by a general oscillating velocity field. Mathematically, we study and classify the multiplicity of distinguished limits and…

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