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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

Using direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence the spatio-temporal behavior of magnetic field fluctuations is analyzed. Cases with relatively small, medium and large values of a mean background…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 R. Lugones , P. Dmitruk , P. D. Mininni , M. Wan , W. H. Matthaeus

This article reviews recent studies of scale interactions in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. The present day increase of computing power, which allows for the exploration of different configurations of turbulence in conducting flows, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. D. Mininni

The Hosking integral, which characterizes magnetic helicity fluctuations in subvolumes, is known to govern the decay of magnetically dominated turbulence. Here we show that, when the evolution of the magnetic field is controlled by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Axel Brandenburg

We study the transition in dimensionality of a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flow forced only mechanically, when the strength of a magnetic guiding field is gradually increased. We use numerical simulations to consider cases in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-12 N. E. Sujovolsky , P. D. Mininni

Energy dissipation is highly intermittent in turbulent plasmas, being localized in coherent structures such as current sheets. The statistical analysis of spatial dissipative structures is an effective approach to studying turbulence. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Stanislav Boldyrev

Using an exact law for incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) turbulence, the energy cascade rate is computed from three-dimensional HMHD-CGL (bi-adiabatic ions and isothermal electrons) and Landau fluid (LF) numerical simulations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 R. Ferrand , F. Sahraoui , D. Laveder , T. Passot , P. L. Sulem , S. Galtier

Decaying electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) turbulence in three dimensions is studied via high-resolution numerical simulations. The resulting energy spectra asymptotically approach a k^{-2} law with increasing R_B, the ratio of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. J. Wareing , R. Hollerbach

In an earlier paper (physics/0006012) we had developed a method for computing the effective energy transfer between any two Fourier modes in fluid or magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows. This method is applied to a pseudo-spectral, direct…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Gaurav Dar , Mahendra K. Verma , V. Eswaran

We examine the range of rest-mass densities, temperatures and magnetic fields involved in simulations of binary neutron star mergers (BNSM) and identify the conditions under which the ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) breaks down using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-12 Arus S. Harutyunyan

One of the most important predictions in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is that in the presence of a uniform magnetic field $\textbf{b}_{0}$ a transition from weak to strong wave turbulence should occur when going from large to small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 Romain Meyrand , Sebastien Galtier , Khurom H. Kiyani

Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial systems but no complete, uncontested theory even in the simplest form, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), exists. Many theories and phenomenologies focus on the joint…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

Context. An essential facet of turbulence is the space-time intermittency of the cascade of energy that leads to coherent structures of high dissipation. Aims. In this work, we attempt to investigate systematically the physical nature of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Thibaud Richard , Pierre Lesaffre , Edith Falgarone , Andrew Lehmann

In this paper we analyze the effect of dynamical three-dimensional MHD turbulence on test particle acceleration, and compare how this evolving system affects particle energization by current sheets interaction, against frozen-in-time…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 C. A. Gonzalez , P. Dmitruk , P. D. Mininni , W. H. Matthaeus

Using highly resolved direct numerical simulations we examine the statistical properties of the local energy flux rate $\Pi_\ell(x)$ towards small scales for three isotropic turbulent magnetohydrodynamic flows, which differ in strength and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-26 Alexandros Alexakis , Sergio Chibbaro

We study the statistics of dynamical quantities associated with magnetic reconnection events embedded in a sea of strong background magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence using direct numerical simulations. We focus on the relationship of the…

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations plus 'non-ideal' (Ohmic, Hall, ambipolar) resistivities are widely used to model weakly-ionized astrophysical systems. We show that if gradients in the magnetic field become too steep, the implied…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire , Raphael Skalidis , Nadine H. Soliman

This paper presents the results of the analysis of 3D simulations of solar magneto-convection that include the joint action of the ambipolar diffusion and the Hall effect. Three simulation-runs are compared: one including both ambipolar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 E. Khomenko , M. Collados , N. Vitas , P. A. Gonzalez-Morales

We explore the effect of the magnetic Prandtl number Pm on energy and dissipation in fully resolved direct numerical simulations of steady-state, mechanically forced homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the range Pm = 1/32 to 32.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-17 Mairi E. McKay , Arjun Berera , Richard D. J. G. Ho

We perform direct numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with kinetic energy and cross helicity injections at large scales. We observe that the cross helicity changes sign as we go from large and intermediate scales…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 V. Titov , R. Stepanov , N. Yokoi , M. Verma , R. Samtaney