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We study the transfer of energy between different scales for forced three-dimensional MHD turbulent flows in the kinematic dynamo regime. Two different forces are examined: a non-helical Taylor Green flow with magnetic Prandtl number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Pablo D. Mininni , Alexandros Alexakis , Annick Pouquet

The magnetic field in Hall plasmas is frozen in the electron component and is advected not only with the plasma motion but also with the electrical current flow. Its coupling with the plasma may be not as strong as characteristic of the MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. I. Rudakov

The dynamics of accreting and outgoing flows around compact objects depends crucially on the strengths and configurations of the magnetic fields therein, especially of the large-scale fields that remain coherent beyond turbulence scales.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-27 Hongzhe Zhou

The standard magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description of the plasma in the hot, magnetized gas of the intra-cluster (ICM) medium is not adequate because it is weakly collisional. In such collisionless magnetized gas, the microscopic velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Santos-Lima , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , D. Falceta-Gonçalves

A series of numerical simulations of the dynamo process operating inside gas giant planets has been performed. We use an anelastic, fully nonlinear, three-dimensional, benchmarked MHD code to evolve the flow, entropy and magnetic field. Our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-11 Wieland Dietrich , Chris. A. Jones

The role of turbulence in current generation and self-excitation of magnetic fields has been studied in the geometry of a mechanically driven, spherical dynamo experiment, using a three dimensional numerical computation. A simple impeller…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. A. Bayliss , C. B. Forest , M. D. Nornberg , E. J. Spence , P. W. Terry

We review the results obtained by three successful fluid dynamo experiments and discuss what has been learnt from them about the effect of turbulence on the dynamo threshold and saturation. We then discuss several questions that are still…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Petrelis , N. Mordant , S. Fauve

MHD Turbulence is common in many space physics and astrophysics environments. We first discuss the properties of incompressible MHD turbulence. A well-conductive fluid amplifies initial magnetic fields in a process called small-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrey Beresnyak , Alex Lazarian

The statistical properties of the subgrid energy transfers of homogeneous small-scale dynamo are investigated during the kinematic, nonlinear and statistically saturated stages. We carry out an a priori analysis of data obtained from an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-26 Gerardus Petrus Offermans , Luca Biferale , Michele Buzzicotti , Moritz Linkmann

Transient plasma events, such as plasma disruptions, are anticipated in the future magnetic-confinement nuclear fusion reactors. The events are accompanied by a rapid change in the magnetic field generated by the plasma current and,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-13 Ivan Smolyanov , Oleg Zikanov

The von-Karman plasma experiment is a novel versatile experimental device designed to explore the dynamics of basic magnetic induction processes and the dynamics of flows driven in weakly magnetized plasmas. A high-density plasma column…

The aim of this paper is to investigate the properties of accretion disks threaded by a weak vertical magnetic field, with a particular focus on the interplay between MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Sebastien Fromang , Henrik N. Latter , Geoffroy Lesur , Gordon I. Ogilvie

The Derviche Tourneur Sodium experiment, a spherical Couette magnetohydrodynamics experiment with liquid sodium as the medium and a dipole magnetic field imposed from the inner sphere, recently underwent upgrades to its diagnostics to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-18 Elliot Kaplan , Henri-Claude Nataf , Nathanaël Schaeffer

We perform 3D radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of the fallback debris after a tidal disruption event. We focus on studying the effects of magnetic fields on the formation and early evolution of the accretion flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Maria Renee Meza , Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang

We investigate the dynamo problem in the limit of small magnetic Prandtl number ($\Pm$) using a shell model of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. The model is designed to satisfy conservation laws of total energy, cross helicity and magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodion Stepanov , Franck Plunian

Non-equilibrium structure formation and conversion of spinning to translational motion of magnetic colloids driven by an external rotating magnetic field in microchannels is studied by particle-based mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-16 Ingo O. Goetze , Gerhard Gompper

Magnetic fields grow quickly, even at early cosmological times, suggesting the action of a small-scale dynamo (SSD) in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. Many studies have focused on idealized, isotropic, homogeneous, turbulent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-15 Frederick A. Gent , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Maarit J. Korpi-Lagg , Nishant K. Singh

Excitation of magnons or spin-waves driven by nominally unpolarized transport currents in point contacts of normal and ferromagnetic metals is probed by irradiating the contacts with microwaves. Two characteristic dynamic effects are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 O. P. Balkashin , V. V. Fisun , I. K. Yanson , L. Yu. Triputen , A. Konovalenko , V. Korenivski

We investigate numerically the self-sustained dynamo action in a spinning sphere whose sense of rotation reverses periodically. This system serves as a simple model of a dynamo in small bodies powered by frequent collisions. It is found…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Xing Wei , Rainer Arlt , Andreas Tilgner

In this short review, we present the main known features of MHD Turbulence at Low Magnetic Reynolds number, for which the flow isn't intense nor electrically conductive enough to disturb an externally applied magnetic field. The emphasis is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-16 Alban Pothérat