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Fluid models that approximate kinetic effects have received attention recently in the modelling of large scale plasmas such as planetary magnetospheres. In three-dimensional reconnection, both reconnection itself and current sheet…

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In this paper we present a two-dimensional, time dependent, numerical simulation of a reconnection current layer in incompressible resistive magnetohydrodynamics with uniform resistivity in the limit of very large Lundquist numbers. We use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Russell M. Kulsrud

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

In this review article we will describe recent developments in statistical theory of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Kraichnan and Iroshnikov first proposed a phenomenology of MHD turbulence where Alfven time-scale dominates the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mahendra K. Verma

We demonstrate that special correlations in the initial conditions of freely evolving, homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence can lead to the formation of enormous current sheets. These coherent structures are observed at the peak…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Vassilios Dallas , Alexandros Alexakis

We present results of Reynolds-averaged turbulence model simulation on the problem of magnetic reconnection. In the model, in addition to the mean density, momentum, magnetic field, and energy equations, the evolution equations of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Fabien Widmer , Jörg Büchner , Nobumitsu Yokoi

High-energy astrophysical systems and compact objects are frequently modeled using ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) or force-free electrodynamic (FFE) simulations, with the underlying assumption that the discretisation from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Michael P. Grehan , Tanisha Ghosal , James R. Beattie , Bart Ripperda , Oliver Porth , Fabio Bacchini

We present a systematic analysis of statistical properties of turbulent current and vorticity structures at a given time using cluster analysis. The data stems from numerical simulations of decaying three-dimensional (3D)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-29 Vadim M. Uritsky , Annick Pouquet , Duane Rosenberg , Pablo D. Mininni , Eric Donovan

We present the results of our detailed pseudospectral direct numerical simulation (DNS) studies, with up to $1024^3$ collocation points, of incompressible, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in three dimensions, without a mean magnetic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-01-31 Ganapati Sahoo , Prasad Perlekar , Rahul Pandit

Shell models of hydrodynamic turbulence originated in the seventies. Their main aim was to describe the statistics of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence in spectral space, using a simple set of ordinary differential equations. In the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-03 Franck Plunian , Rodion Stepanov , Peter Frick

Based on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence simulations, we generate synthetic synchrotron observations to explore the scaling slope of the underlying MHD turbulence. We propose the new $Q$-$U$ cross intensity $X$ and cross-correlation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Zhang Xue-Wen , Zhang Jian-Fu , Wang Ru-Yue , Xiang Fu-Yuan

The decay of magnetically dominated turbulence exhibits robust inverse transfer of magnetic energy even in the absence of net magnetic helicity, challenging traditional cascade-based phenomenology. While recent studies suggest that magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-27 Chandranathan Anandavijayan , Pallavi Bhat

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

We study the structural stability of shock waves and current-vortex sheets in shallow water magnetohydrodynamics (SMHD) in the sense of the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of discontinuous solutions satisfying corresponding jump…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Yuri Trakhinin

We study magnetic reconnection events in a turbulent plasma within the two-fluid theory. By identifying the diffusive regions, we measure the reconnection rates as function of the conductivity and current sheet thickness. We have found that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Nicola Offeddu , Miller Mendoza

This paper employs an MHD-PIC method to perform numerical simulations of magnetic reconnection-driven turbulence and turbulent reconnection acceleration of particles. Focusing on the dynamics of the magnetic reconnection, the properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Shiming Liang , Jianfu Zhang , Nana Gao , Huaping Xiao

We use extensive 3D resistive MHD simulations to study how large-scale current sheets will undergo fast reconnection in the high Lundquist number $S$ limit (above $\sim 10^4$), when the system is subject to different externally driven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Yang Liping , Li Hui , Guo Fan , Li Xiaocan , Li Shengtai , He jiansen , Zhang Lei , Feng Xueshang

We present pseudospectral direct-numerical-simulation (DNS) studies of the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations (3DRFMHD) with a stochastic force that has zero mean and a variance $\sim k^{-3}$, where $k$ is the wavenumber,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-10 Ganapati Sahoo , Nadia Bihari Padhan , Abhik Basu , Rahul Pandit

Magnetic field fluctuations in MHD turbulence can be viewed as current sheets that are progressively more anisotropic at smaller scales. As suggested by Loureiro & Boldyrev (2017) and Mallet et al (2017), below a certain critical thickness…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Stanislav Boldyrev , Nuno F. Loureiro

To systematically stress a rotationally symmetric 3D magnetic null point by advecting the opposite footpoints of the spine axis in opposite directions. This stress eventually concentrates in the vicinity of the null point forming a local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. Galsgaard , D. I. Pontin