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Turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical systems like galaxies, galaxy clusters and possibly even the IGM filaments. We study fluctuation dynamo action in turbulent systems focusing on one observational signature; the Faraday rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-09 Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Mechanisms of nonhelical large-scale dynamos (shear-current dynamo and effect of homogeneous kinetic helicity fluctuations with zero mean) in a homogeneous turbulence with large-scale shear are discussed. We have found that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Rogachevskii , N. Kleeorin

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

We study large-scale dynamo action due to turbulence in the presence of a linear shear flow, in the low conductivity limit. Our treatment is nonperturbative in the shear strength and makes systematic use of both the shearing coordinate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Sridhar , Nishant K. Singh

Ferromagnetic domain walls -transitional regions between magnetic domains- are an essential ingredient for racetrack memory, a device concept that promises to deliver faster and more compact memory storage compared to other non-volatile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 A. L. Bassant , Y. M. J. Ohlsen , M. Cherkasskii , P. B. He , R. A. Duine

We analyse large deviations of time-averaged quantities in stochastic processes with long-range memory, where the dynamics at time t depends itself on the value q_t of the time-averaged quantity. First we consider the elephant random walk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Robert L. Jack , Rosemary J. Harris

An effect of rotation on a developed turbulent stratified convection is studied. Dependencies of the hydrodynamic helicity, the alpha-tensor and the effective drift velocity of the mean magnetic field on the rate of rotation and an…

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

Dynamo action owing to helically forced turbulence and large-scale shear is studied using direct numerical simulations. The resulting magnetic field displays propagating wave-like behavior. This behavior can be modelled in terms of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg

(abridged) Aims: Three-dimensional numerical simulations of penetrative compressible convection with uniform horizontal shear are used to study dynamo action and the generation of large-scale magnetic fields. Methods: We consider cases…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-10 P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Korpi , A. Brandenburg

We propose a new mechanism for turbulent mean-field dynamo in which the magnetic fluctuations resulting from a small-scale dynamo drive the generation of large-scale magnetic fields. This is in stark contrast to the common idea that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-23 Jonathan Squire , Amitava Bhattacharjee

The transition to intermittent mean--field dynamos is studied using numerical simulations of isotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence driven by a helical flow. The low-Prandtl number regime is investigated by keeping the kinematic viscosity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Erico L. Rempel , Michael R. E. Proctor , Abraham C. -L. Chian

We consider an incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model in which the classical first-order time derivatives in the momentum and magnetic induction equations are replaced by variable-order Caputo time-fractional derivatives. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Abdumauvlen Berdyshev , Dossan Baigereyev , Aibek Bakishev , Nurlana Alimbekova , Talgat Farkhadov

A plane-shear flow in a fluid with forced turbulence is considered. If the fluid is electrically-conducting then a mean electromotive force (EMF) results even without basic rotation and the magnetic diffusivity becomes a highly anisotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Ruediger , L. L. Kitchatinov

Magnetic fields in several astrophysical objects are amplified and maintained by a dynamo mechanism, which is the conversion of the turbulent kinetic energy to magnetic energy. A dynamo that amplifies magnetic fields at scales $<$ the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-27 Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

We present the application of a fluctuating hydrodynamic theory to study current fluctuations in diffusive systems on a semi-infinite line in contact with a reservoir with slow coupling. We show that the distribution of the time-integrated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-04 Soumyabrata Saha , Tridib Sadhu

The nonlinear mean-field dynamo due to a shear-current effect in a nonhelical homogeneous turbulence with a mean velocity shear is discussed. The transport of magnetic helicity as a dynamical nonlinearity is taken into account. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Rogachevskii , N. Kleeorin , E. Liverts

High-order extensions of the Hopfield model are known to exhibit dramatically enhanced storage capacity at equilibrium, while their dynamical retrieval properties remain less well understood. In our previous work, we carried out a dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-06 Yuto Sumikawa , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

We study analytically giant fluctuations and temporal intermittency in a stochastic one-dimensional model with diffusion and aggregation of masses in the bulk, along with influx of single particles and outflux of aggregates at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Himani Sachdeva , Mustansir Barma

The generation of large-scale magnetic fields is generically accompanied by the more rapid growth of small-scale fields. The growing Lorentz force due to these fields back reacts on the turbulence to saturate the mean-field and small-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kandaswamy Subramanian

Models of large scale (magnetohydrodynamic) dynamos (LSD) which couple large scale field growth to total magnetic helicity evolution best predict the saturation of LSDs seen in simulations. For the simplest so called "{\alpha}2" LSDs in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Kiwan Park , E. G. Blackman