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The dynamo driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is believed to play an important role in the dynamics of accretion discs and may also explain the origin of the extreme magnetic fields present in magnetars. Its saturation level…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Jerome Guilet , Alexis Reboul-Salze , Raphael Raynaud , Matteo Bugli , Basile Gallet

Dynamo action in a fully helical Beltrami (ABC) flow is studied using both direct numerical simulations and subgrid modeling. Sufficient scale separation is given in order to allow for large-scale magnetic energy build-up. Growth of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Mininni

Using observational data from the \emph{Magnetospheric Multiscale} (MMS) Mission in the Earth's magnetosheath, we estimate the energy cascade rate using different techniques within the framework of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Direct numerical simulations of decaying and forced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence without and with mean magnetic field are analyzed by higher-order two-point statistics. The turbulence exhibits statistical anisotropy with respect to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wolf-Christian Mueller , Dieter Biskamp , Roland Grappin

The existence of a weak galactic magnetic field has been repeatedly confirmed by observational data. The origin of this field has not as yet been explained in a fully satisfactory way and represents one of the main challenges of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alexander Schekochihin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Russell Kulsrud

The free decay of MHD turbulence at large Reynolds numbers is studied numerically using a shell model. We study the statistical properties based on representative sample of realisations (128 realisations for each type of initial conditions)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-09-23 Peter Frick , Rodion Stepanov

Energy dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is known to be highly intermittent in space, being concentrated in sheet-like coherent structures. Much less is known about intermittency in time, another fundamental aspect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-23 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Stanislav Boldyrev

At small but supercritical Rayleigh numbers, simulations of dynamos in spherical shells often separate into two broad regimes characterised either by their relative magnetic field strength (weak/strong) or by their dominant force balance…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-18 Luke J. Gostelow , Robert J. Teed

We investigate the energy pathways between the velocity and the magnetic fields in a rotating plane layer dynamo driven by Rayleigh-B\'enard convection using direct numerical simulations. The kinetic and magnetic energies are divided into…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-20 Souvik Naskar , Anikesh Pal

Shock waves play an important role in turbulent astrophysical media by compressing the gas and dissipating the turbulent energy into the thermal energy. We here study shocks in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence using high-resolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 Junseong Park , Dongsu Ryu

Decaying electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) turbulence in three dimensions is studied via high-resolution numerical simulations. The resulting energy spectra asymptotically approach a k^{-2} law with increasing R_B, the ratio of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. J. Wareing , R. Hollerbach

Spectropolarimetric observations show that many low-mass stars possess large-scale poloidal magnetic fields with considerable dipole component, which in some cases exhibit temporal dynamics - cycles or reversals. Although it is widely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Anna Guseva , Ludovic Petitdemange , Charly Pinçon

The transition from weak to strong turbulence when passing from large to small scales in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with guide field is a cornerstone of anisotropic turbulence theory. We present the first check of this transition,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Andrea Verdini , Roland Grappin

We consider the problem of incompressible, forced, nonhelical, homogeneous and isotropic MHD turbulence with no mean magnetic field and large magnetic Prandtl number. This type of MHD turbulence is the end state of the turbulent dynamo,…

We characterize magnetic fields produced during electroweak symmetry breaking by non-dynamical numerical simulations based on the Kibble mechanism. The generated magnetic fields were thought to have an energy spectrum $\propto k^3$ for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Tanmay Vachaspati , Axel Brandenburg

A three-dimensional numerical computation of magnetohydrodynamic dynamo behavior is described. The dynamo is mechanically forced with a driving term of the Taylor-Green type. The magnetic field development is followed from negligibly small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. D. Mininni , Y. Ponty , D. C. Montgomery , J. -F. Pinton , H. Politano , A. Pouquet

It is typically assumed that the kinetic and magnetic helicities play a crucial role in the growth of large-scale dynamo. In this paper we demonstrate that helicity is not essential for the amplification of large-scale magnetic field. For…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-22 Rohit Kumar , Mahendra K. Verma

Convection is one of the most important mixing processes in stellar interiors. Hydrodynamic mass entrainment can bring fresh fuel from neighboring stable layers into a convection zone, modifying the structure and evolution of the star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 G. Leidi , R. Andrassy , J. Higl , P. V. F. Edelmann , F. K. Röpke

The turbulent dynamo may explain the origin of cosmic magnetism. While the exponential amplification of magnetic fields has been studied for incompressible gases, little is known about dynamo action in highly-compressible, supersonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-05 Christoph Federrath , Jennifer Schober , Stefano Bovino , Dominik R. G. Schleicher

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence regulates the transfer of energy from large to small scales in many astrophysical systems, including the solar atmosphere. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations with unprecedentedly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-30 Chuanfei Dong , Liang Wang , Yi-Min Huang , Luca Comisso , Timothy A. Sandstrom , Amitava Bhattacharjee