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Through the enhancement of transport, turbulence is expected to contribute to the fast reconnection. However the effects of turbulence are not so straightforward. In addition to the enhancement of transport, turbulence under some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-01-09 Nobumitsu Yokoi , Katsuaki Higashimori , Masahiro Hoshino

We give a short introduction to the subject and review advances in understanding the basic ingredients of the mean-field dynamo theory. The discussion includes the recent analytic and numerical work in developments for the mean…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. V. Pipin

The focus of this study is to understand the evolution of instability in centrifugal buoyancy-induced flow in a rotating system. The problem is of interest in atmospheric flows as well as in engineering applications. In this study, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-16 Deepak Saini , Richard D. Sandberg

The interstellar medium of the Milky Way and nearby disk galaxies harbours large-scale coherent magnetic fields of Microgauss strength, that can be explained via the action of a mean-field dynamo. As in our previous work, we aim to quantify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Oliver Gressel , Detlef Elstner

Faraday rotation of the polarization plane in magnetized thermal plasma provides one of the most efficient methods to deduce regular magnetic fields from radio astronomical observations. Since the Faraday rotation measure RM is proportional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rainer Beck , Anvar Shukurov , Dmitry Sokoloff , Richard Wielebinski

According to the standard thin disc theory, it is predicted that the radiation-pressure-dominated inner region of a thin disc is thermally unstable, while observations suggest that it is common for a thin disc of more than 0.01 Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Yu Zhao , Xiao-Hong Yang , Li Xue , Shuang-Liang Li

A linear stability analysis of the free surface of a horizontally unbounded ferrofluid layer of arbitrary depth subjected to vertical vibrations and a horizontal magnetic field is performed. A nonmonotonic dependence of the stability…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 V. V. Mekhonoshin , Adrian Lange

Solar magnetic fields comprise an 11-year activity cycle, represented by the number of sunspots. The maintenance of such a solar magnetic field can be attributed to fluid motion in the convection zone, i.e. a dynamo. This study conducts the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Ryota Shimada , Hideyuki Hotta , Takaaki Yokoyama

Magnetic reconnection and turbulence are deeply intertwined in magnetohydrodynamic flows, yet how reconnection self-generates turbulence remains unclear. Using an ensemble of high-resolution three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Nick Williams , Alessandro De Rosis , Alex Skillen

Observations of active stars reveal highly non-uniform surface distributions of magnetic flux. Theoretical models considering magnetised stellar winds however often presume uniform surface magnetic fields, characterised by a single magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Holzwarth

Using in situ data, accumulated in the turbulent magnetosheath by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission, we report a statistical study of magnetic field curvature and discuss its role in the turbulent space plasmas. Consistent with…

Helical magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with Hall effects is ubiquitous in heliophysics and plasma physics, such as star formation and solar activities, and its intrinsic mechanisms are still not clearly explained. Direct numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Running Hu , Jin-Han Xie , Xinliang Li , Changping Yu , Yuan Hu , Jianchun Wang , Shiyi Chen

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation provides a universal lower bound on the product of entropy production and the fluctuations of any current. While proven for Markov dynamics on a discrete set of states and for overdamped Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Hyun-Myung Chun , Lukas P. Fischer , Udo Seifert

Both multiphase gas and magnetic fields are ubiquitous in astrophysics. However, the influence of magnetic fields on mixing of the different phases is still largely unexplored. In this study, we use both turbulent radiative mixing layer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-17 Hitesh Kishore Das , Max Gronke

We present the results of simulations of forced turbulence in a slab where the mean kinetic helicity has a maximum near the mid-plane, generating gradients of magnetic helicity of both large and small-scale fields. We also study systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 A. Hubbard , A. Brandenburg

We have tested the ability of driven turbulence to generate magnetic field structure from a weak uniform field using three dimensional numerical simulations of incompressible turbulence. We used a pseudo-spectral code with a numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jungyeon Cho , Ethan T. Vishniac

To contribute to the understanding of the magnetic field's influence on the segregation of CNM in the solar neighbourhood we analyse MHD simulations which include the main physical characteristics of the local neutral atomic ISM. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 M. A. Villagran , A. Gazol

An effect is considered of alternating (high-frequency) current on the spin-valve type magnetic junction configuration. The stability with respect to small fluctuations is investigated in the macrospin approximation. When the current…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. Epshtein , P. E. Zilberman

An effect of a mean velocity shear on a turbulence and on the effective force which is determined by the gradient of Reynolds stresses is studied. Generation of a mean vorticity in a homogeneous incompressible turbulent flow with an imposed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Elperin , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

In this paper, we study the development of anisotropy in strong MHD turbulence in the presence of a large scale magnetic field B 0 by analyzing the results of direct numerical simulations. Our results show that the developed anisotropy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Sita Sundar , Mahendra K. Verma , Alexandros Alexakis , Anando G. Chatterjee