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The normalized non-dimensional von K\'arm\'an-Howarth equation for isotropic homogeneous decaying and forced steady turbulence is integrated to obtain expressions for the dissipation rate coefficient $C_{\epsilon}=(L \epsilon)/< u^2…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-08-03 Philip Schaefer

Magnetic field fluctuations in MHD turbulence can be viewed as current sheets that are progressively more anisotropic at smaller scales. As suggested by Loureiro & Boldyrev (2017) and Mallet et al (2017), below a certain critical thickness…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Stanislav Boldyrev , Nuno F. Loureiro

We analyze the anisotropy of turbulence in an electrically conducting fluid in the presence of a uniform magnetic field, for low magnetic Reynolds number, using the quasi-static approximation. In the linear limit, the kinetic energy of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-01 Benjamin F. N. Favier , Fabien S. Godeferd , Claude Cambon , Alexandre Delache

High Reynolds number isotropic magneto-hydro-dynamic turbulence in the presence of large scale magnetic fields is investigated as a function of the magnetic field strength. For a variety of flow configurations the energy dissipation rate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-09-20 Alexandros Alexakis

Hydromagnetic turbulence affects the evolution of large-scale magnetic fields through mean-field effects like turbulent diffusion and the $\alpha$ effect. For stronger fields, these effects are usually suppressed or quenched, and additional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Bidya Binay Karak , Matthias Rheinhardt , Axel Brandenburg , Petri J. Kapyla , Maarit J. Kapyla

We analyse the anisotropy of homogeneous turbulence in an electrically conducting fluid submitted to a uniform magnetic field, for low magnetic Reynolds number, in the quasi- static approximation. We interpret disagreeing previous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-23 B. F. N. Favier , F. S. Godeferd , C. Cambon , A. Delache , W. J. T. Bos

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-31 James R. Beattie , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen , Salvatore Cielo , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Using computations of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with a Taylor-Green flow, whose inherent time-independent symmetries are implemented numerically, and in the absence of either a forcing function or an imposed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ed Lee , M. E. Brachet , A. Pouquet , P. D. Mininni , D. Rosenberg

Using the test-field method for nearly irrotational turbulence driven by spherical expansion waves it is shown that the turbulent magnetic diffusivity increases with magnetic Reynolds numbers. Its value levels off at several times the rms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-11-05 Axel Brandenburg , Fabio Del Sordo

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

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

Physical experiments and numerical simulations have revealed a remarkable stabilizing phenomenon: a background magnetic field stabilizes and dampens electrically conducting fluids. This paper provides a rigorous mathematical justification…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Qunyi Bie , Hui Fang , Yanping Zhou

The evolution of the magnetic helicity tensor for a nonzero mean magnetic field and for large magnetic Reynolds numbers in an anisotropic turbulence is studied. It is shown that the isotropic and anisotropic parts of the magnetic helicity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

We present a set of three-dimensional (3D) direct numerical simulations of incompressible decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in which we investigate the influence of an external uniform magnetic field B_0. A parametric study in terms…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara Bigot , Sebastien Galtier , Helene Politano

With the help of a model of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence tested previously, we explore high Reynolds number regimes up to equivalent resolutions of 6000^3 grid points in the absence of forcing and with no imposed uniform magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-19 J. Pietarila Graham , P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

The theory of mean field electrodynamics for diffusive processes in Electron Magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) model is presented. In contrast to Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) the evolution of magnetic field here is governed by a nonlinear equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Amita Das , P. H. Diamond

We present a model for nonlinear decay of the weak wave in three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We show that the decay rate is different for parallel and perpendicular waves. We provide a general formula…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Andrey Beresnyak , Alex Lazarian

A main result of this paper establishes the global stability of the three-dimensional MHD equations near a background magnetic field with mixed fractional partial dissipation with $\alpha, \beta\in(\frac{1}{2}, 1]$. Namely, the velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Xuemin Deng , Yuelong Xiao , Aibin Zang

We derive relations for the decay of the kinetic and magnetic energies and the growth of the Taylor and integral scales in unforced, incompressible, homogeneous and isotropic three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (3DMHD) turbulence with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chirag Kalelkar , Rahul Pandit

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