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Initial results from simulations of 4-fluid MHD turbulence in molecular clouds are presented. The species included in the simulations are ions, electrons, negatively charged dust grains and neutrals. The results indicate that, on length…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-02 Turlough P. Downes

In this paper we describe the mode-to-mode energy transfers and energy fluxes of MHD turbulence. These energy transfers are very useful for understanding the turbulence dynamics, as well as for applications such as dynamo. We illustrate how…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-19 Mahendra K. Verma , Rodion Stepanov , Franck Plunian

Black-hole perturbation theory is a useful tool to investigate issues in astrophysics, high-energy physics, and fundamental problems in gravity. It is often complementary to fully-fledged nonlinear evolutions and instrumental to interpret…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-10 Paolo Pani

This is an introductory course on the open problems in the theory of fully developed turbulence. It discusses: 1. hydrodynamical equations, 2. existence of solutions, 3. statistical description of turbulent flows, 4. Kolmogorov scaling…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Krzysztof Gawedzki

Numerical simulations shed light onto earlier not trackable problem of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. They allowed to test the predictions of different models and choose the correct ones. Inevitably, this progress calls for revisions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-27 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the solar wind is observed to show the spectral behavior of classical Kolmogorov fluid turbulence over an inertial subrange and departures from this at short wavelengths, where energy should be…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Bale , P. J. Kellogg , F. S. Mozer , T. S. Horbury , H. Reme

Turbulence is a ubiquitous phenomenon in space and astrophysical plasmas, driving a cascade of energy from large to small scales and strongly influencing the plasma heating resulting from the dissipation of the turbulence. Modern theories…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 G. G. Howes , D. J. Drake , K. D. Nielson , T. A. Carter , C. A. Kletzing , F. Skiff

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the majority of natural systems, including the interstellar medium, the solar corona, and the solar wind, has Reynolds numbers far exceeding the Reynolds numbers achievable in numerical experiments.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. C. Perez , J. Mason , S. Boldyrev , F. Cattaneo

The statistical properties of interstellar turbulence are studied by means of three-dimensional high-resolution HD and MHD simulations of a SN-driven ISM. It is found that the longitudinal and transverse turbulent length scales have time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt

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

System-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves within Earth's magnetosphere are often understood theoretically using box models. While these have been highly instructive in understanding many fundamental features of the various wave modes…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 M. O. Archer , D. J. Southwood , M. D. Hartinger , L. Rastaetter , A. N. Wright

I briefly discuss recent results of numerical simulations addressing the generation of a cosmological gravitational wave background produced by turbulence sources in the early universe. Contribution to the 2021 Gravitation session of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-20 Alberto Roper Pol

Recently there has been some progress in modeling the statistical properties of turbulent flows using simple superstatistical models. Here we briefly review the concept of superstatistics in turbulence. In particular, we discuss a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Beck

Observations show that propagating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. The technique of MHD seismology uses the wave observations combined with MHD wave theory to indirectly infer physical parameters of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Goossens , R. Soler , I. Arregui , J. Terradas

MHD turbulence driven at velocities higher than the Alfv\'en velocity, i.e., super-Alfv\'enic turbulence, is widely spread in astrophysical environments, including galaxy clusters and molecular clouds. For statistical studies of such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 A. Lazarian , D. Pogosyan , Y. Hu

This review paper is devoted to a presentation of recent progress in wave turbulence. I first present the context and state of the art of this field of research both experimentally and theoretically. I then focus on the case of wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-05-05 Eric Falcon

Turbulence in astrophysical and space plasmas is dominated by the nonlinear interaction of counterpropagating Alfven waves. Most Alfven wave turbulence theories have been based on ideal plasma models, such as incompressible MHD, for Alfven…

Alfven waves are considered to be viable transporters of the non-thermal energy required to heat the Sun's quiescent atmosphere. An abundance of recent observations, from state-of-the-art facilities, have reported the existence of Alfven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mihalis Mathioudakis , David Jess , Robertus Erdelyi

Recent advances in understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for substantial revisions in our understanding of cosmic ray transport. In this paper we use gyroresonance recently obtained scaling laws for MHD modes to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

We numerically investigate the driving of MHD turbulence by gravitational contraction using simulations of an initially spherical, magnetically supercritical cloud core with initially transonic and trans-Alfv\'enic turbulence. We perform a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-04 Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Yue Hu , Siyao Xu , Rubén Guerrero-Gamboa , Alex Lazarian