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We present numerical investigations into three principal properties of the small-scale dynamo in stably stratified turbulence: the onset criterion, the growth rate, and the nature of the magnetic field anisotropy in the kinematic regime.…

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This Letter reports scaling laws of free magnetic energy stored in a solar emerging flux region which is a key to understanding the energetics of solar active phenomena such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections. By performing…

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This article is focused on the dynamics of a rotating electrically conducting fluid in a turbulent state. As inside the Earth's core or in various industrial processes, a flow is altered by the presence of both background rotation and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-01 Benjamin F. N. Favier , Fabien S. Godeferd , Claude Cambon

The fundamental laws of physics are required to be invariant under local spatial scale change. In 3-dimensional space, this leads to a variation in Planck constant \hbar and speed of light c. They vary as \hbar ~ a^(1/2) and c ~ a^(-1/2), a…

General Physics · Physics 2013-02-28 Hoang K. Nguyen

It is shown that the characteristic observed radius, velocity, and temperature of a typical galaxy can be inferred from Planck action constant through a phenomenological scaling law on all cosmological scales.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Salvatore Capozziello , Salvatore De Martino , Silvio De Siena , Fabrizio Illuminati

A static variational model for shape formation in heteroepitaxial crystal growth is considered. The energy functional takes into account surface energy, elastic misfit-energy and nucleation energy of dislocations. A scaling law for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Lukas Abel , Janusz Ginster , Barbara Zwicknagl

We report preliminary results from a series of numerical simulations of the reduced magnetohydrodynamic equations, used to describe the dynamics of magnetic loops in active regions of the solar corona. A stationary velocity field is applied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pablo Dmitruk , Daniel Gomez

Planets lose mass to atmospheric outflows, and this mass loss is thought to be central in shaping the bimodal population of gaseous giant and rocky terrestrial exoplanets in close orbits. We model the escape of planetary atmospheres in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-22 Morgan MacLeod , Antonija Oklopčić , Fabienne Nail , Dion Linssen

Scaling laws arise and are eulogized across disciplines from natural to social sciences for providing pithy, quantitative, `scale-free', and `universal' power law relationships between two variables. On a log-log plot, the power laws…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-04 Marc-Antoine Fardin , Mathieu Hautefeuille , Vivek Sharma

We present analytical examples of fluid dynamos that saturate through the action of the Coriolis and inertial terms of the Navier-Stokes equation. The flow is driven by a body force and is subject to global rotation and uniform sweeping…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Basile Gallet

An attractive method of obtaining an effective cosmological constant at the present epoch is through the potential energy of a scalar field. Considering models with a perfect fluid and a scalar field, we classify all potentials for which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Andrew R Liddle , Robert J Scherrer

The spatial scaling laws of velocity kinetic energy spectrum for compressible turbulence flow and its density-weighted counterpart have been formulated in terms of wavenumber, dissipation rate and Mach number by using dimensional analysis.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-04 Bohua Sun

Different aspects of critical behaviour of magnetic materials are presented and discussed. The scaling ideas are shown to arise in the context of purely magnetic properties as well as in that of thermal properties as demonstrated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-04 R. Pelka , P. Konieczny , M. Fitta , M. Czapla , P. M. Zielinski , M. Balanda , T. Wasiutynski , Y. Miyazaki , A. Inaba , D. Pinkowicz , B. Sieklucka

The scaling laws for the magnetic compression of a toroidally rotating field reversed configuration (FRC) have been investigated in this work. The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of the magnetic compression on rotating FRCs employing…

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We use high resolution numerical simulations over several hundred of turnover times to study the influence of small scale dissipation onto vortex statistics in 2D decaying turbulence. A self-similar scaling regime is detected when the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jean-Philippe Laval , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Bérengère Dubrulle , Clément Sire

Active fluids exhibit complex turbulent-like flows at low Reynolds number. Recent work predicted that 2d active nematic turbulence follows universal scaling laws. However, experimentally testing these predictions is conditioned by the…

In this letter we establish a connection between two-exponent radius-mass power laws for cosmic objects and previously proposed two-exponent Regge-like spin-mass relations. A new, simplest method for establishing the coordinates of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 R. Muradian , S. Carneiro , R. Marques

Herein, we numerically study the rheology of a two-dimensional frictional granular system confined by constant pressure under oscillatory shear. Several scaling laws for the storage and loss moduli against the scaled strain amplitude have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-17 Daisuke Ishima , Hisao Hayakawa

In turbulence, for neutral or conducting fluids, a large ratio of scales is excited because of the possible occurrence of inverse cascades to large, global scales together with direct cascades to small, dissipative scales, as observed in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-03 Annick Pouquet , Julia E. Stawarz , Duane Rosenberg

We establish universal scaling laws and quantify aging in three-dimensional uniformly heated hard sphere granular gases through large-scale event-driven molecular dynamics ($N=500{,}000$). We report three primary quantitative discoveries:…

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