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We recently proposed a method to calculate the relative magnetic helicity in a finite volume for a given magnetic field which however required the flux to be balanced separately on all the sides of the considered volume. In order to allow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Shangbin Yang , Joerg Buechner , Jan Skala , Hongqi Zhang

Two non-local asymptotic invariants of magnetic fields for the ideal magnetohydrodynamics are introduced. The velocity of variation of the invariants for a non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics with a small magnetic dissipation is estimated. By…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Petr M. Akhmet'ev

Magnetic helicity fluxes are investigated in a family of gauges in which the contribution from ideal magnetohydrodynamics takes the form of a purely advective flux. Numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in this advective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Simon Candelaresi , Alexander Hubbard , Axel Brandenburg , Dhrubaditya Mitra

The paper address the effects of magnetic helicity conservation in a non-linear nonaxisymmetric mean-field solar dynamo model. We study the evolution of the shallow non-axisymmetric magnetic field perturbation with the strength about 10G in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 V. V. Pipin

Helical magnetic background fields with adjustable pitch angle are imposed on a conducting fluid in a differentially rotating cylindrical container. The small-scale kinetic and current helicities are calculated for various field geometries,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Gellert , G. Ruediger , R. Hollerbach

We derive horizontal fluid motions on the solar surface over large areas covering the quiet-Sun magnetic network from local correlation tracking of convective granules imaged in continuum intensity and Doppler velocity by the Helioseismic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 C. R. Sangeetha , S. P. Rajaguru

Magnetic helicity flux gives information about the topology of a magnetic field passing through a boundary. In solar physics applications, this boundary is the photosphere and magnetic helicity flux has become an important quantity in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Chris Prior , David MacTaggart

We study the evolution of electric currents during the emergence of magnetic flux in the solar photosphere and the differences exhibited between solar active regions of different Hale complexity classes. A sample of 59 active regions was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 I. Kontogiannis , M. K. Georgoulis

In this paper we study the effects of hemispheric imbalance of magnetic helicity density on breaking the equatorial reflection symmetry of the dynamo generated large-scale magnetic field. Our study employs the axisymmetric dynamo model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 S. Yang , V. V. Pipin , D. D. Sokoloff , K. M. Kuzanyan , H. Zhang

We present three-dimensional numerical simulations of a magnetic loop evolving in either a convectively stable or unstable rotating shell. The magnetic loop is introduced in the shell in such a way that it is buoyant only in a certain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 L. Jouve , A. S. Brun , G. Aulanier

Magnetic quenching of turbulent thermal diffusivity leads to instability of the large-scale field with the production of spatially isolated regions of enhanced field. This conclusion follows from a linear stability analysis in the framework…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Leonid L. Kitchatinov

The photospheric magnetic field outside of active regions and the network has a ubiquitous and dynamic line-of-sight component that strengthens from disk center to limb as expected for a nearly horizontal orientation. This component shows a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. W. Harvey , D. Branston , C. J. Henney , C. U. Keller , the SOLIS Team , the GONG Team

Solar wind turbulence is often perceived as weakly compressible and the density fluctuations remain poorly understood both theoretically and observationally. Compressible magnetohydrodynamic simulations provide useful insights into the…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Senbei Du , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Xiangrong Fu

The role of the different helical components of the magnetic and velocity fields in the inverse spectral transfer of magnetic helicity is investigated through Fourier shell-to-shell transfer analysis. Both magnetic helicity and energetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Wolf-Christian Müller

To elucidate the cascade direction of the solar wind turbulence, we analyzed magnetic helicity density spectra from the Parker Solar Probe data across more than 500 heliocentric distances. For the first time, we confirmed a persistent…

The hemispheric pattern of solar filaments is considered using newly-developed simulations of the real photospheric and 3D coronal magnetic fields over a 6-month period, on a global scale. The magnetic field direction in the simulation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. R. Yeates , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen

Isotropic homogeneous hydromagnetic turbulence is studied using numerical simulations at resolutions of up to 1024^3 meshpoints. It is argued that, in contrast to the kinematic regime, the nonlinear regime is characterized by a spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandenburg , N. E. L. Haugen , W. Dobler

We analyze low and high--latitude fast solar wind data from the Ulysses spacecraft from 1992 to 1994 using a a systematic method to analyse the anisotropic content of the magnetic field fluctuations. We investigate all available…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Bigazzi , L. Biferale , S. M. A. Gama , M. Velli

In this study, we explore the influence of the helicity of the magnetic axis-defined as the self-linking number of the curve-on the quality of quasi-isodynamic stellarator-symmetric configurations constructed using the near-axis expansion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 Katia Camacho Mata , Gabriel G. Plunk

We present observations of the power spectral anisotropy in wave-vector space of solar wind turbulence, and study how it evolves in interplanetary space with increasing heliocentric distance. For this purpose we use magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jiansen He , Chuanyi Tu , Eckart Marsch , Sofiane Bourouaine , Zhongtian Pei