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Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial systems but no complete, uncontested theory even in the simplest form, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), exists. Many theories and phenomenologies focus on the joint…

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Isotropic homogeneous hydromagnetic turbulence is studied using numerical simulations at resolutions of up to 1024^3 meshpoints. It is argued that, in contrast to the kinematic regime, the nonlinear regime is characterized by a spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandenburg , N. E. L. Haugen , W. Dobler

We present numerical studies of 3-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a strongly magnetized medium in the extremely relativistic limit, in which the inertia of the charge carriers can be neglected. We have focused on strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jungyeon Cho

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 two leading models of isotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence have competing predictions: $k^{-5/3}$ (Kolmogorov) and $k^{-3/2}$ (Iroshnikov-Kraichnan) scalings. This paper identifies the valid MHD turbulence model using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Manthan Verma , Abhishek K. Jha , Shashwat Nirgudkar , Mahendra K. Verma

We present the first study of the multiscaling of time-dependent velocity and magnetic-field structure functions in homogeneous, isotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in three dimensions. We generalize the formalism that has been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-08 Samriddhi Sankar Ray , Ganapati Sahoo , Rahul Pandit

The solar wind and the interstellar medium are permeated by large-scale magnetic fields that render magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence anisotropic. In the weak-turbulence limit in which three-wave interactions dominate, analytical and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-06 C. S. Ng , A. Bhattacharjee

This is a brief review of the main results of our recent studies of the nonlinear evolution of the small-scale MHD dynamo in the high-Prandtl-number regime and of the structure of the resulting saturated state of the isotropic homogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , G. W. Hammett , J. L. Maron , J. C. McWilliams

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,…

In the presence of magnetic helicity, inverse transfer from small to large scales is well known in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and has applications in astrophysics, cosmology, and fusion plasmas. Using high resolution direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-23 Axel Brandenburg , Tina Kahniashvili , Alexander G. Tevzadze

We consider the problem of incompressible, forced, nonhelical, homogeneous, isotropic MHD turbulence with no mean magnetic field. This problem is essentially different from the case with externally imposed uniform mean field. There is no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , S. F. Taylor , J. L. Maron , J. C. McWilliams

We present a new analysis of the anisotropic spectral energy distribution in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence permeated by a strong mean magnetic field. The turbulent flow is generated by high-resolution pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roland Grappin , Wolf-Christian Müller

In quasi-static MHD, experiments and numerical simulations reveal that the energy spectrum is steeper than Kolmogorov's $k^{-5/3}$ spectrum. To explain this observation, we construct turbulence models based on variable energy flux, which is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mahendra K. Verma , K. Sandeep Reddy

Electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) turbulence in two dimensions is studied via high-resolution numerical simulations with a normal diffusivity. The resulting energy spectra asymptotically approach a $k^{-5/2}$ law with increasing $R_B$,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-05-01 C. J. Wareing , R. Hollerbach

We present high resolution numerical simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We concentrate on studies of spectra and anisotropy of velocity and density. We describe a technique of separating different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

We present numerical simulations and explore scalings and anisotropy of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Our study covers both gas pressure dominated (high beta) and magnetically dominated (low beta) plasmas at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest description of magnetic plasma turbulence in a variety of astrophysical and laboratory systems. MHD turbulence with nonzero cross helicity is often called imbalanced, as it implies that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jean Carlos Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev

We revisit the scaling properties of the energy spectra in fully developed incompressible homogeneous turbulence in forced magnetofluids (MHD) in three dimensions (3D), which are believed to be characterised by {\em universal scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-02 Abhik Basu , Jayanta K Bhattacharjee

We propose a phenomenological model for incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. We argue that nonlinear-wave interaction weakens as the energy cascade proceeds to small scales, however, the anisotropy of fluctuations along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stanislav Boldyrev

It has been proposed recently by Loureiro & Boldyrev [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 245101 (2017)] and Mallet et al. [Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 468, 4862 (2017)] that strongly anisotropic current sheets formed in the inertial range of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Justin Walker , Stanislav Boldyrev , Nuno Loureiro
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