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We use smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of massive protostellar discs to investigate the predicted broadening of molecular lines from discs in which self-gravity is the dominant source of angular momentum transport. The…

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In this paper we test the results of a recent analytical study by Lazarian and Pogosyan, on the statistics of emissivity in velocity channel maps, in the case of realistic density and velocity fields obtained from numerical simulations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alex Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Barbara Pichardo

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…

Magnetic field are transported and tangled by turbulence, even as they lose identity due to nonideal or resistive effects. On balance field lines undergo stretch-twist-fold processes. The curvature field, a scalar that measures the tangling…

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

Turbulence plays a key role in star formation in molecular clouds, affecting star cluster primordial properties. As modelling present-day objects hinges on our understanding of their initial conditions, better constraints on turbulence can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Piero Trevisan , Mario Pasquato , Alessandro Ballone , Michela Mapelli

We formulate a coarse-graining approach to the dynamics of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluids at a continuum of length-scales. In this methodology, effective equations are derived for the observable velocity and magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Hussein Aluie

Robust estimators and different filtering techniques are proposed and their impact on the determination of a wide range of turbulence quantities is analysed. High-frequency water level measurements in a stepped spillway are used as a case…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-13 Daniel Valero , Hubert Chanson , Daniel B. Bung

It is shown that the statistical properties of the magnitude of the magnetic field in turbulent electrically conducting media resemble, in the inertial range, those of passive scalars in fully developed three-dimensional fluid turbulence.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bershadskii , K. R. Sreenivasan

The central molecular zone (CMZ) plays an essential role in regulating the nuclear ecosystem of our Galaxy. To get an insight into the magnetic fields of the CMZ, we employ the Gradient Technique (GT), which is rooted in the anisotropy of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-09 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Q. Daniel Wang

Usually, the measurements of electronic and magnetic properties of superconducting samples are carried out under a constant temperature bath. On the other hand, thermal gradients induce local variation of the superconducting order…

Numerical and experimental turbulence simulations are nowadays reaching the size of the so-called big data, thus requiring refined investigative tools for appropriate statistical analyses and data mining. We present a new approach based on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-05 Stefania Scarsoglio , Giovanni Iacobello , Luca Ridolfi

We perform experiments to study the inverse cascade regime of gravity wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid. Surface waves are forced at an intermediate scale corresponding to the gravity-capillary wavelength. In response to this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-27 Luc Deike , Claude Laroche , Eric Falcon

Many phenomena taking place in the solar photosphere are controlled by plasma motions. Although the line-of-sight component of the velocity can be estimated using the Doppler effect, we do not have direct spectroscopic access to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Asensio Ramos , I. S. Requerey , N. Vitas

Theoretical and observational studies on the turbulence of the interstellar medium developed fast in the past decades. The theory of supersonic magnetized turbulence, as well as the understanding of projection effects of observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Lazarian , M. Houde

The study of velocity fields of the hot gas in galaxy clusters can help to unravel details of microphysics on small-scales and to decipher the nature of feedback by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Likewise, magnetic fields as traced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Kristian Ehlert , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel

Understanding the interaction mechanisms between large-scale magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and small-scale drift-wave microturbulence is essential for predicting and optimizing the performance of magnetic confinement based fusion energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Olivier Izacard , Christopher Holland , Spencer D. James , Dylan P. Brennan

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence plays a central role in many astrophysical processes in the interstellar medium (ISM), including star formation and cosmic-ray transport and acceleration. MHD turbulence can be decomposed into three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-13 Jiyao Zhang , Yue Hu

Free-space optical communication with spatial modes of light has become topical due to the possibility of dramatically increasing communication bandwidth via Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM). While both scalar and vector vortex modes have…

Statistical moments of velocity gradients provide fundamental information on the small-scale properties of turbulence. In this work, we propose a systematic method to derive exact expressions for statistical moments of arbitrary order for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-24 Tong Wu , Chensheng Luo , Le Fang , Michael Wilczek