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Context. The magneto-thermal instability (MTI) is one of many possible drivers of stratified turbulence in the intracluster medium (ICM) outskirts of galaxy clusters, where the background temperature gradient is aligned with the gravity.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Jean M. Kempf , François Rincon

Observations in polarized emission reveal the existence of large-scale coherent magnetic fields in a wide range of spiral galaxies. Radio-polarization data show that these fields are strongly inclined towards the radial direction, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Gressel , Udo Ziegler , Detlef Elstner , Günther Rüdiger

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is thought to be a powerful source of turbulence and momentum transport in astrophysical accretion discs, but obtaining observational evidence of its operation is challenging. Recently, laboratory…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-15 A. Guseva , A. P. Willis , R. Hollerbach , M. Avila

The linear stability of MHD Taylor-Couette flow of infinite vertical extension is considered for various magnetic Prandtl numbers Pm. The calculations are performed for a wide gap container with \hat\eta=0.5 with an axial uniform magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 D. A. Shalybkov , G. Rüdiger , M. Schultz

Stable, accurate, divergence-free simulation of magnetized supersonic turbulence is a severe test of numerical MHD schemes and has been surprisingly difficult to achieve due to the range of flow conditions present. Here we present a new,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-20 Sergey D. Ustyugov , Mikhail V. Popov , Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman

The nonlinear dynamics of magnetic tearing islands imbedded in a pressure gradient driven turbulence is investigated numerically in a reduced magnetohydrodynamic model. The study reveals regimes where the linear and nonlinear phases of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-24 Magali Muraglia , Oliver Agullo , Sadruddin Benkadda , Xavier Garbet , P. Beyer , Abhijit Sen

In this paper, we analyze the linear stability of a stellar accretion disk, having a stratified morphology. The study is performed in the framework of ideal magneto-hydrodynamics and therefore it results in a characterization of the linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Montani , D. Pugliese

The transport of angular momentum (AM) and chemical elements within evolving stars remains poorly understood. Recent observations showed that the radiative cores of low mass main sequence stars and red giants rotate orders of magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Domenico G. Meduri , Laurène Jouve , François Lignières

Turbulence in the interstellar medium has been an active field of research in the last decade. Numerical simulations are the tool of choice in most cases. But while there are a number of simulations on the market some questions have not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Wisniewski , R. Kissmann , F. Spanier

A non-perturbative nonlinear statistical approach is presented to describe turbulent magnetic systems embedded in a uniform mean magnetic field. A general formula in the form of an ordinary differential equation for magnetic field-line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Shalchi , I. Kourakis

The Tayler instability (TI) is a non-axisymmetric linear instability of an axisymmetric toroidal magnetic field in magneto-hydrostatic equilibrium (MHSE). Spruit (1999, 2002) has proposed that in a differentially rotating radiative region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 J. Goldstein , R. H. D. Townsend , E. G. Zweibel

In this paper we show results of numerical simulations for the turbulence in the interstellar medium. These results were obtained using a Riemann solver-free numerical scheme for high-Mach number hyperbolic equations. Here we especially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Kissmann , J. Kleimann , H. Fichtner , R. Grauer

In strongly compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, obliqueness between the large-scale density gradient and magnetic field gives an electromotive force mediated by density variance (intensity of density fluctuation). This effect is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Nobumitsu Yokoi , Steven M. Tobias

The effects of the resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) on the turbulent transport are analyzed in the framework of the test particle approach using a semi-analytical method. The normalized RMP amplitude $P_{b}$ extends on a large range,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Madalina Vlad , Florin Spineanu

We examine the effects of density stratification on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability in local simulations that adopt the shearing box approximation. Our primary result is that, even in the absence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 S. W. Davis , J. M. Stone , M. E. Pessah

Angular momentum transport in protostellar discs can take place either radially, through turbulence induced by the magnetorotational instability (MRI), or vertically, through the torque exerted by a large-scale magnetic field that threads…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Raquel Salmeron , Arieh Konigl , Mark Wardle

Numerical calculations and linear theory of radiation magnetohydrodynamic flows indicate that the photon bubble and magnetorotational instability (MRI) may produce large density inhomogeneities in radiation pressure supported media. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. W. Davis , O. M. Blaes , N. J. Turner , A. Socrates

An asymmetry in the number density of left- and right-handed fermions is known to give rise to a new term in the induction equation that can result in a dynamo instability. At high temperatures, when a chiral asymmetry can survive for long…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-17 Jennifer Schober , Axel Brandenburg , Igor Rogachevskii , Nathan Kleeorin

A sufficiently large unpolarized current can cause a spin-wave instability in thin nanomagnets with asymmetric contacts. The dynamics beyond the instability is understood in the perturbative regime of small spin-wave amplitudes, as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shaffique Adam , Mikhail L. Polianski , Piet W. Brouwer

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) of a weakly ionized, differentially rotating, magnetized plasma disk is investigated in the multi-fluid framework. The disk is threaded by a uniform vertical magnetic field and charge is carried by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. P. Pandey , Mark Wardle