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The possibility of the emergence of a stratified region in the uppermost part of the Earth's outer core with long-term magnetic field generation is assessed, taking into account uncertainties in the thermal conductivity of the Earth's core…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Takashi Nakagawa , Shin-ichi Takahero , Youhei Sasaki

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

Accretional heating of Earth's interior during formation is pivotal to its subsequent thermal and chemical evolution. In particular, impact heating of Earth's core is expected, but its amplitude and radial distribution within the core is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 You Zhou , Peter E. Driscoll , Mingming Zhang , Christian Reinhardt , Thomas Meier

A rigorous theory for the generation of a large-scale magnetic field by random non-helically forced motions of a conducting fluid combined with a linear shear is presented in the analytically tractable limit of low Rm and weak shear. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 T. Heinemann , J. C. McWilliams , A. A. Schekochihin

Direct numerical simulations of turbulent Hall dynamos are presented. The evolution of an initially weak and small scale magnetic field in a system maintained in a stationary turbulent regime by a stirring force at a macroscopic scale is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. D. Mininni , D. O. Gómez , S. M. Mahajan

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

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…

Understanding large scale magnetic field growth in turbulent plasmas in the magnetohydrodynamic limit is a goal of magnetic dynamo theory. In particular, assessing how well large scale helical field growth and saturation in simulations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kiwan Park , Eric G. Blackman , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Using models of the Earth's core evolution and the length of the day observations the change of the dimensionless geodynamo parameters is considered. The evolutionary model includes cooling of the liquid adiabatic core, growing solid core,…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 M. Yu. Reshetnyak

Planetary systems evolve over secular time scales. One of the key mechanisms that drive this evolution is tidal dissipation. Submitted to tides, stellar and planetary fluid layers do not behave like rocky ones. Indeed, they are the place of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Stéphane Mathis , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte

We investigate the off-equilibrium dynamics of a spin system with O($N$) symmetry in $2 < d < 4$ spatial dimensions arising by the presence of a slowly varying time-dependent magnetic field $h(t,t_s) \sim t/t_s$, $t_s$ is a time scale, at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-25 Stefano Scopa

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of subsonic (Mach number~$<1$) turbulence are crucial to our understanding of several processes including oceanic and atmospheric flows, the amplification of magnetic fields in the early universe,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-14 James Watt , Christoph Federrath , Claudius Birke , Christian Klingenberg

The study of long-term evolution of neutron star (NS) magnetic fields is key to understanding the rich diversity of NS observations, and to unifying their nature despite the different emission mechanisms and observed properties. Such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 J. G. Elfritz , J. A. Pons , N. Rea , K. Glampedakis , D. Viganò

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Tetsuya Magara

The operation of the solar global dynamo appears to involve many dynamical elements. Self-consistent MHD simulations which realistically incorporate all of these processes are not yet computationally feasible, though some elements can now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

We report measurements of global dissipated power within a turbulent flow homogeneously forced at small scale by a new forcing technique. The forcing is random in both time and space within the fluid by using magnetic particles in an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-31 Eric Falcon , Jean-Claude Bacri , Claude Laroche

Many real world systems exhibit cyclic behavior that is, for example, due to the nearly harmonic oscillations being perturbed by the strong fluctuations present in the regime of significant non-linearities. For the investigation of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-03 Nigul Olspert , Maarit Käpylä , Jaan Pelt

We present two-dimensional fully-kinetic Particle-in-Cell simulations of decaying electromagnetic fluctuations. The computational box is such that wavelengths ranging from electron to ion gyroradii are resolved. The parameters used are…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-03-14 Enrico Camporeale , David Burgess

This study employs molecular dynamics simulations to investigate droplet dynamics when a stationary droplet on a solid surface is struck by another droplet of similar size from above. The focus is on the jumping behavior of the merged…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ertiza Hossain Shopnil , Jahid Emon , Md Nadeem Azad , AKM Monjur Morshed

We present an out-of-core hydrodynamic code for high resolution cosmological simulations that require terabytes of memory. Out-of-core computation refers to the technique of using disk space as virtual memory and transferring data in and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hy Trac , Ue-Li Pen