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It is well known that non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic effects are important in the dynamics of molecular clouds: both ambipolar diffusion and possibly the Hall effect have been identified as significant. We present the results of a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 T. P. Downes , S. O'Sullivan

Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are ubiquitous in space plasmas and a main component of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the heliosphere. As pump waves they are prone to parametric instability by which they can generate cyclotron and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Eckart Marsch , Daniel Verscharen

Intercluster medium is expected to be turbulent with turbulence being superAlfvenic at large scales. Magnetic fields substantially modify the turbulent cascade when the turbulence reaches the scales at which the fluctuation velocity gets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Lazarian

We consider stationary, forced, imbalanced, or cross-helical MHD Alfvenic turbulence where the waves traveling in one direction have higher amplitudes than the opposite waves. This paper is dedicated to so-called strong turbulence, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Beresnyak , A. Lazarian

Alfv\'en waves are responsible for the transfer of magnetic energy in the magnetized plasma. They are involved in heating solar atmosphere and driving solar wind through various nonlinear processes. Since the magnetic field configurations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Takahito Sakaue , Kazunari Shibata

This paper presents the numerical verification of an asymptotic analytical solution for the nonlinear interaction between counterpropagating Alfven waves, the fundamental building block of astrophysical plasma turbulence. The analytical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kevin D. Nielson , Gregory G. Howes , William Dorland

We analyze 3D numerical simulations of driven incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a periodic box threaded by a moderately strong external magnetic field. We sum over nonlinear interactions within Fourier wavebands and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , Alex Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

The collisionless dissipation of anisotropic Alfv\'enic turbulence is a promising candidate to solve the solar wind heating problem. Extensive studies examined the kinetic properties of Alfv\'en waves in simple Maxwellian or bi-Maxwellian…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-12 Yuguang Tong , Stuart D. Bale , Christopher H. K. Chen , Chadi S. Salem , Daniel Verscharen

Alfv\'enic interactions which transfer energy from large to small spatial scales lie at the heart of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. An important feature of the turbulence is the generation of negative residual energy -- excess energy in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 S. Dorfman , M. Abler , S. Boldyrev , C. H. K. Chen , S. Greess

We consider a series of MHD simulations in which a small amplitude, transverse velocity perturbation is introduced into a complex magnetic field. We analysed the deformation of the wave fronts as the perturbation propagates through the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Jack Reid , Alan Hood

The propagation and non-linear interactions of magnetohydrodynamic waves are considered in the force-free limit, where the inertia of the conducting matter which enforces the MHD condition E.B = 0 can be neglected in comparison with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Parker Troischt , Christopher Thompson

The dissipation of magnetized turbulence is fundamental to understanding energy transfer and heating in astrophysical systems. Collisionless interactions, such as resonant wave-particle process, are known to play a role in shaping turbulent…

To comprehensively understand saturation of two-dimensional ($2$D) magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz-instability-driven turbulence, energy transfer analysis is extended from the traditional interaction between scales to include eigenmode…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 B. Tripathi , A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel , E. H. Anders

Solar wind is probably the best laboratory to study turbulence in astrophysical plasmas. In addition to the presence of magnetic field, the differences with neutral fluid isotropic turbulence are: weakness of collisional dissipation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Olga Alexandrova , Christopher H. K. Chen , Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Timothy S. Horbury , Stuart D. Bale

The transition region is a thin inhomogeneous region where Alfven waves' energy fluxes generated elsewhere in the solar atmosphere are effectively converted. Large-scale kinetic Alfven wave propagations, transmission, and reflection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Petko Nenovski

We present the first measurement of the scale-dependent power anisotropy of Elsasser variables in imbalanced fast solar wind turbulence. The dominant Elsasser mode is isotropic at lower spacecraft frequencies but becomes increasingly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. T. Wicks , T. S. Horbury , C. H. K. Chen , A. A. Schekochihin

Many astrophysical fluids are magnetized and turbulent. Such fluids can be often described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In this review, we mainly consider MHD turbulence with a strong mean magnetic field whose energy density is greater…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Jungyeon Cho

Owing to the complexity of turbulent magnetic fields, modeling the diffusion of cosmic rays is challenging. Based on the current understanding of anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, we use test particles to examine the cosmic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Siyao Xu

We perform magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the propagation of Alfven wave in magnetic chromosphere. We use the 1.5-dimensional expanding flux tube geometry setting and transverse perturbation at the bottom to generate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-13 Yikang Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama

In this paper we systematically study the spectrum and structure of incompressible MHD turbulence by means of high resolution direct numerical simulations. We considered both balanced and imbalanced (cross-helical) cases and simulated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 A. Beresnyak , A. Lazarian