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We re-examine the nature of the turbulent magnetic diffusivity tensor of mean field electrodynamics and show that an inconsistency arises if it is calculated via consideration of time-independent magnetic fields. Specifically, the predicted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-14 David W. Hughes , Michael R. E. Proctor

We analyze stellar convection with the aid of 3D hydrodynamic simulations, introducing the turbulent cascade into our theoretical analysis. We devise closures of the Reynolds-decomposed mean field equations by simple physical modeling of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David Arnett , Casey Meakin , P. A. Young

The turbulent small-scale dynamo (SSD) is likely to be responsible for the magnetisation of the interstellar medium (ISM) that we observe in the Universe today. The SSD efficiently converts kinetic energy $E_{\rm kin}$ into magnetic energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 James R. Beattie , Christoph Federrath , Neco Kriel , Philip Mocz , Amit Seta

In the mean-field theory of magnetic fields, turbulent transport, i.e. the turbulent electromotive force, is described by a combination of the alpha effect and turbulent magnetic diffusion, which are usually assumed to be proportional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Hubbard , Axel Brandenburg

Strongly stratified hydromagnetic turbulence has previously been found to produce magnetic flux concentrations if the domain is large enough compared with the size of turbulent eddies. Mean-field simulations (MFS) using parameterizations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-06 A. Brandenburg , O. Gressel , S. Jabbari , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

Convection is one of the most important mixing processes in stellar interiors. Hydrodynamic mass entrainment can bring fresh fuel from neighboring stable layers into a convection zone, modifying the structure and evolution of the star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 G. Leidi , R. Andrassy , J. Higl , P. V. F. Edelmann , F. K. Röpke

Presented here is a novel formulation of the mean-field dynamo as a modulational instability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. This formulation, termed mean-field wave kinetics (MFWK), is based on the Weyl symbol calculus and allows…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 S. Jin , I. Y. Dodin

Super-Alfv\'enic turbulence is widespread in astrophysical environments, including molecular clouds and the diffuse plasma of galaxy clusters. At large scales, magnetic fields play only a minor dynamical role; however, for sufficiently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 A. Lazarian , Yue Hu , D. Pogosyan

Various approaches to estimate turbulent transport coefficients from numerical simulations of hydromagnetic turbulence are discussed. A quantitative comparison between the averaged magnetic field obtained from a specific three-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Axel Brandenburg , Dmitry Sokoloff

Observations in polarized emission reveal the existence of large-scale coherent magnetic fields in a wide range of spiral galaxies. Radio-polarization data show that these fields are strongly inclined towards the radial direction, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Gressel , Udo Ziegler , Detlef Elstner , Günther Rüdiger

We use ensemble machine learning algorithms to study the evolution of magnetic fields in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence that is helically forced. We perform direct numerical simulations of helically forced turbulence using mean field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Farrukh Nauman , Joonas Nättilä

The amplification of magnetic fields is crucial for understanding the observed magnetization of stars and galaxies. Turbulent dynamo is the primary mechanism responsible for that but the understanding of its action in a collapsing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Muhammed Irshad P , Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian , Anvar Shukurov

Context. The recently developed test-field method permits to compute dynamo coefficients from global, direct numerical simulations. The subsequent use of these parameters in mean-field models enables us to compare self-consistent dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Schrinner

Convergence of a matrix decomposition technique, the multi-field singular value decomposition (MFSVD) which efficiently analyzes nonlinear correlations by simultaneously decomposing multiple fields, is investigated. Toward applications in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-08 Go Yatomi , Motoki Nakata

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

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Frederick A. Gent , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Maarit J. Kapyla , Nishant K. Singh

Magnetic fields have been included in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation only recently, due to advances in numerical techniques and a better understanding of the galaxy formation physics. In this paper, we develop a new subgrid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-13 Yuankang Liu , Michael Kretschmer , Romain Teyssier

The mean electromotive force (MEMF) in a rotating stratified magnetohydrodynamical turbulence is studied.Our study rests on the mean-field magnetohydrodynamics framework and $\tau$ approximation. We compute the effects of the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-10 V. V. Pipin

A novel volume of fluid model (VoF) called explicit volume diffusion (EVD) is developed for the simulation of interfacial flows, including those with turbulence and primary spray atomisation. The EVD model is derived by volume averaging the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 B. Wang , M. J. Cleary , A. R. Masri

We present results from two-dimensional numerical simulations of a supersonic turbulent flow in the plane of the galactic disk, incorporating shear, thresholded and discrete star formation (SF), self-gravity, rotation and magnetic fields. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Passot , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , A. Pouquet

We explore the MRI driven dynamo in a radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) using the mean field dynamo paradigm. Using singular value decomposition (SVD) we obtain the least squares fitting dynamo coefficients $\alpha$ and $\gamma$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-28 Prasun Dhang , Abhijit Bendre , Prateek Sharma , Kandaswamy Subramanian