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We present the first demonstration of the negative effective magnetic pressure instability in direct numerical simulations of stably stratified, externally forced, isothermal hydromagnetic turbulence in the regime of large plasma beta. By…

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We investigate compressive turbulence at sub-ion scales with measurements from the Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission. The tetrahedral configuration and high time resolution density data obtained by calibrating spacecraft potential allow an…

The nature of solar wind turbulence in the dissipation range at scales much smaller than the large MHD scales remains under debate. Here a two-dimensional model based on the hybrid code abbreviated as A.I.K.E.F. is presented, which treats…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 Daniel Verscharen , Eckart Marsch , Uwe Motschmann , Joachim Müller

The three-dimensional (3D) Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) equations are often used to study turbulence in the solar wind. Some earlier studies have investigated the statistical properties of 3D HMHD turbulence by using simple shell models…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Sharad K Yadav , Hideaki Miura , Rahul Pandit

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is a ubiquitous phenomenon in solar physics, plasma physics and astrophysics and governs many properties of the flows of well-conductive fluids. Recently, conflicting spectral slopes for the inertial range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Andrey Beresnyak

Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial plasmas but no universal theory exists. Even the detailed energy dynamics in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are still not well understood. We present a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-06 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

We demonstrate that a magneto-convection simulation incorporating essential physical processes governing solar surface convection exhibits turbulent small-scale dynamo action. By presenting a derivation of the energy balance equation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Jonathan Pietarila Graham , Robert Cameron , Manfred Schuessler

Turbulence simulations play a key role in advancing the general understanding of the physical properties turbulence and in interpreting astrophysical observations of turbulent plasmas. For the sake of simplicity, however, turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

How the turbulent energy cascade develops below the magnetohydrodynamic scales in space and astrophysical plasmas is a major open question. Here, we measure the power spectrum of magnetic fluctuations in Parker Solar Probe's observations…

We present full 2 Pi global 3-D stratified MHD simulations of accretion disks. We interpret our results in the context of proto-planetary disks. We investigate the turbulence driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) using the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Flock , N. Dzyurkevich , H. Klahr , N. J. Turner , Th. Henning

The first estimation of the energy cascade rate ${|\epsilon_C|}$ of magnetosheath turbulence is obtained using the CLUSTER and THEMIS spacecraft data and an exact law of compressible isothermal magnetohydrodynamics turbulence.…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Lina Hadid , Fouad Sahraoui , Sebastien Galtier , Shiyong Huang

Accurate subgrid-scale turbulence models are needed to perform realistic numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the subsurface flows of the Sun. To perform large-eddy simulations (LES) of turbulent MHD flows, three unknown terms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 G. Balarac , A. G. Kosovichev , O. Brugière , A. A. Wray , N. N. Mansour

Supersonic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a ubiquitous state for many astrophysical plasmas. However, even the basic statistics for this type of turbulence remains uncertain. We present results from supersonic MHD turbulence…

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We examine the scaling laws of MHD turbulence for three different types of forcing functions and imposing at all times the four-fold symmetries of the Taylor-Green (TG) vortex generalized to MHD; no uniform magnetic field is present and the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-10 G. Krstulovic , M. E. Brachet , A. Pouquet

We perform a suite of two- and three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with the Athena code of the non-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the subsonic, weak magnetic field limit. Focusing the analysis on the non-linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Greg Salvesen , Kris Beckwith , Jacob B. Simon , Sean M. O'Neill , Mitchell C. Begelman

Estimation of the energy cascade rate in the inertial range of solar wind turbulence has been done so far mostly within the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) theory. Here, we go beyond that approximation to include plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 L. Z. Hadid , F. Sahraoui , S. Galtier

We analyze 3D numerical simulations of driven incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a periodic box threaded by a moderately strong external magnetic field. We sum over nonlinear interactions within Fourier wavebands and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , Alex Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

Radiative turbulent mixing layers are expected to form pervasively at the phase boundaries in multiphase astrophysical systems. This inherently small scale structure is dynamically crucial because it directly regulates the mass, momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-04 Xihui Zhao , Xue-Ning Bai

We analyze the development and influence of turbulence in three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of guide-field magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause with parameters based on observations of an electron diffusion region by the…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 L. Price , M Swisdak , J. F. Drake , D. B. Graham

The heating, acceleration, and pitch-angle scattering of charged particles by MHD turbulence are important in a wide range of astrophysical environments, including the solar wind, accreting black holes, and galaxy clusters. We simulate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-26 Jacob W. Lynn , Ian J. Parrish , Eliot Quataert , Benjamin D. G. Chandran