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Scaling laws for ion temperature gradient driven turbulence in magnetized toroidal plasmas are derived and compared with direct numerical simulations. Predicted dependences of turbulence fluctuation amplitudes, spatial scales, and resulting…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Barnes , F. I. Parra , A. A. Schekochihin

The role of turbulence in setting boundary plasma conditions is presently a key uncertainty in projecting to fusion energy reactors. To robustly diagnose edge turbulence, we develop and demonstrate a technique to translate brightness…

Dome seeing is a known source of image quality degradation, but despite tremendous progress in wavefront control with the development of adaptive optics and environmental control through implementation of dome venting, surprisingly little…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-06 Olivier Lai , Kanoa Withington , Romain Laugier , Mark Chun

We study the heating of charged test particles in three-dimensional numerical simulations of weakly compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence (``Alfvenic turbulence''); these results are relevant to particle heating and acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Remi Lehe , Ian J. Parrish , Eliot Quataert

I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Frederick Gent

The Fourier analysis of the final particle distribution followed by cumulant study of the Fourier coefficient event-by-event fluctuation is one of the main approaches for testing the collective evolution in the heavy-ion collision. Using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-15 Seyed Farid Taghavi

We study the effects of turbulence on magnetic reconnection using three-dimensional numerical simulations. This is the first attempt to test a model of fast magnetic reconnection proposed by Lazarian & Vishniac (1999), which assumes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-12 G. Kowal , A. Lazarian , E. T. Vishniac , K. Otmianowska-Mazur

We present STAR measurements of various harmonics of three-particle correlations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC. The quantity $\langle\cos(m\phi_1+n\phi_2-(m+n)\phi_3)\rangle$ is measured for inclusive charged particles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Prithwish Tribedy

When magnetohydrodynamic turbulence evolves in the presence of a large-scale mean magnetic field, an anisotropy develops relative to that preferred direction. The well-known tendency is to develop stronger gradients perpendicular to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Rohit Chhiber , William H. Matthaeus , Sean Oughton , Tulasi N. Parashar

A novel experimental platform is developed to investigate the dynamics of inertial particles (micro-droplets) in air turbulence. The goal is to observe particle collision and coalescence in turbulent flows, focusing on its impact on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-12 L. Fu , J. Feng , Y. Chen , F. Gong , X. Meng , E. -W. Saw

Turbulence is a complex physical process prevalent in modern physics, particularly in ionized environments like interstellar gas, where magnetic fields play a dynamic role. However, the precise influence of magnetic fields in such settings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

Atmospheric turbulence degrades the performance of free-space optical (FSO) communication and remote sensing systems by introducing phase and intensity distortions. While a majority of research focuses on mitigating these effects to ensure…

The growth of computational resources in the past decades has expanded the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) from the traditional fields of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics to a number of new areas. Examples range from the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Jian-Xun Wang , Heng Xiao

We performed numerical simulations of supersonic isothermal turbulence driven by mostly compressive large-scale forcing, using both a static grid and adaptive mesh refinement with an effective resolution N=768^3. After a transient phase…

The use of 3D hydrodynamical simulations of stellar surface convection for model atmospheres is computationally expensive. Although these models have been available for quite some time, their use is limited because of the lack of extensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 S. Bertran de Lis , C. Allende Prieto , H. -G. Ludwig , L. Koesterke

Turbulence in the intracluster medium (ICM) is driven by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) jets, by mergers, and in the wakes of infalling galaxies. It not only governs gas motion but also plays a key role in the ICM thermodynamics. Turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-10 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Mrinal Jetti , Prateek Sharma , Christoph Federrath

Turbulent dynamics generate random fluctuations in density and velocity in the Interstellar Medium (ISM) of spiral and dwarf galaxies. Observationally, H~{\sc i} 21-cm radiation provides a good probe of these stochastic processes and helps…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-30 Meera Nandakumar

Turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical fluids such as the interstellar medium (ISM) and the intracluster medium (ICM). In turbulence studies, it is customary to assume that fluid is driven on a single scale. However, in astrophysical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Hyunju Yoo , Jungyeon Cho

N-Point Correlation Functions, usually with N = 2, 3, and their Fourier-space analogs power spectrum and bispectrum, are major tools used in cosmology to capture the clustering of large-scale structure. We outline how the clustering these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Zachary Slepian , Farshad Kamalinejad , Alessandro Greco

The nature of dark energy and the complete theory of gravity are two central questions currently facing cosmology. A vital tool for addressing them is the 3-point correlation function (3PCF), which probes deviations from a spatially random…