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The amplification of astrophysical magnetic fields takes place via dynamo instability in turbulent environments. The presence of vorticity is crucial for the dynamo to happen. However, the role of vorticity is not yet fully understood. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-11 Albert Elias-López , Fabio del Sordo , Daniele Viganò

We study a simple magnetohydrodynamical approach in which hydrodynamics and MHD turbulence are coupled in a shell model, with given dynamo constrains in the large scales. We consider the case of a low Prandtl number fluid for which the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Roberto Benzi , Jean-Francois Pinton

We perform numerical simulation of dynamo with magnetic Prandtl number $\mathrm{Pm} =0.2$ on $1024^3$ grid, and compute the energy fluxes and the shell-to-shell energy transfers. These computations indicate that the magnetic energy growth…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Rohit Kumar , Mahendra K. Verma , Ravi Samtaney

The interaction of differential rotation and toroidal fields that are current-free in the gap between two corotating axially unbounded cylinders is considered. It is shown that nonaxisymmetric perturbations are unstable if the rotation rate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Ruediger , M. Gellert , M. Schultz , R. Hollerbach , F. Stefani

The magnetic Reynolds number R_M, is defined as the product of a characteristic scale and associated flow speed divided by the microphysical magnetic diffusivity. For laminar flows, R_M also approximates the ratio of advective to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric G. Blackman , George B. Field

We analyze the initial, kinematic stage of magnetic field evolution in an isotropic and homogeneous turbulent conducting fluid with a rough velocity field, v(l) ~ l^alpha, alpha<1. We propose that in the limit of small magnetic Prandtl…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo

We consider the electric and magnetic energy densities (or equivalently field fluctuations) in the space around a point-like field source in its ground state, after having subtracted the spatially uniform zero-point energy terms, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Roberto Passante , Lucia Rizzuto , Salvatore Spagnolo

We simulate the evolution of an initially weak magnetic field in forced turbulence for a range of Prandtl numbers. The field grows exponentially with the Kulsrud-Anderson $k^{3/2}$ spectrum until the magnetic energy approaches the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Jason Maron , Steven Cowley

Context: During the last decades, significant progress has been made in both numerical simulations of turbulent dynamo and theoretical understanding of turbulence. However, there is still lack of quantitative comparison between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-08 A. V. Kopyev , A. S. Il'yn , V. A. Sirota , K. P. Zybin

The self-excitation of magnetic field by a spiral Couette flow between two coaxial cylinders is considered. We solve numerically the fully nonlinear, three-dimensional MHD equations for magnetic Prandtl numbers Pm (ratio of kinematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Wolfgang Dobler , Anvar Shukurov , Axel Brandenburg

We present direct numerical simulations of reversals of the magnetic field generated by swirling flows in a spherical domain. In agreement with a recent model, we observe that coupling dipolar and quadrupolar magnetic modes by an asymmetric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christophe Gissinger , Emmanuel Dormy , Stephan Fauve

We consider the evolution of primordial magnetic fields generated during cosmological, electroweak or QCD, phase transitions. We assume that the magnetic field generation can be described as an injection of magnetic energy to cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-24 Tina Kahniashvili , Alexander G. Tevzadze , Axel Brandenburg , Andrii Neronov

We consider the induction of magnetic field in flows of electrically conducting fluid at low magnetic Prandtl number and large kinetic Reynolds number. Using the separation between the magnetic and kinetic diffusive lengthscales, we propose…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yannick Ponty , Helene Politano , Jean-Francois Pinton

We explore the phenomenon of the recently discovered inverse transfer of energy from small to large scales in decaying magnetohydrodynamical turbulence by Brandenburg et al. (2015) even for nonhelical magnetic fields. For this investigation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Johannes Reppin , Robi Banerjee

In this work, we study the behavior of elementary electromagnetic sources, i.e., point-like electric charges and intrinsic magnetic dipoles, in the presence of homogeneous electromagnetic fields in a classical and covariant setting. We show…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Ivanina Ilieva , Carsten Rockstuhl , Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton

In this thesis, we have studied the generation and evolution of the magnetic field in the early Universe. We investigated the generation of magnetic fields in the presence of chiral symmetry and gravitational anomaly. We have used modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Arun Kumar Pandey

The behaviour of the turbulent Prandtl number ($Pr_t$) for buoyancy-affected flows near a vertical surface is investigated as an extension study of {Gibson \& Leslie, \emph{Int. Comm. Heat Mass Transfer}, Vol. 11, pp. 73-84 (1984)}. By…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-26 Xiaowei Xu , Andrew S. H. Ooi , Richard D. Sandberg

Lorentz reciprocity establishes a stringent relation between electromagnetic fields and their sources. For static magnetic fields, a relation between magnetic sources and fields can be drawn in analogy to the Green's reciprocity principle…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 J. Prat-Camps , P. Maurer , G. Kirchmair , O. Romero-Isart

Generation of magnetic field energy, without mean field generation, is studied. Isotropic mirror-symmetric turbulence of a conducting fluid amplifies the energy of small-scale magnetic perturbations if the magnetic Reynolds number is high,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Gruzinov , S. Cowley , R. Sudan

The magnetic Prandtl number Pr_M is the ratio of viscosity to resistivity. In astrophysical disks the diffusion of angular momentum (viscosity) and magnetic fields (resistivity) are controlled by turbulence. Phenomenological models of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 Xiaoyue Guan , Charles F. Gammie