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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

In this Letter, we report compressible mode effects on relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence in Poynting-dominated plasmas using 3-dimensional numerical simulations. We decomposed fluctuations in the turbulence into 3 MHD modes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-09 Makoto Takamoto , Alexandre Lazarian

We performed three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of shear Alfven waves in a full field line system with magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and plasma non-uniformities. Feedback instability of the Alfven resonant modes showed…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yasutaka Hiraki

When magnetohydrodynamic turbulence evolves in the presence of a large-scale mean magnetic field, an anisotropy develops relative to that preferred direction. The well-known tendency is to develop stronger gradients perpendicular to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Rohit Chhiber , William H. Matthaeus , Sean Oughton , Tulasi N. Parashar

Following a general heuristic approach, algebraic constraints are established between the parallel and perpendicular power-law exponents of non-axisymmetric, highly aligned magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, both with and without strong…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Ramesh Sasmal , Supratik Banerjee

It is well known that helical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence exhibits an inverse transfer of magnetic energy from small to large scales, which is related to the approximate conservation of magnetic helicity. Recently, several…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Andres Armua , Arjun Berera , Jaime Calderon Figueroa

Polarization, spin, and helicity are important properties of electromagnetic waves. It is commonly believed that helicity is invariant under the Lorentz transformations. This is indeed so for plane waves and their localized superpositions.…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-08 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Magnetic helicity is a quantity that underpins many theories of magnetic relaxation in electrically conducting fluids, both laminar and turbulent. Although much theoretical effort has been expended on magnetic fields that are everywhere…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Sauli Lindberg , David MacTaggart

Magnetic helicity fluxes are investigated in a family of gauges in which the contribution from ideal magnetohydrodynamics takes the form of a purely advective flux. Numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in this advective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Simon Candelaresi , Alexander Hubbard , Axel Brandenburg , Dhrubaditya Mitra

A two-field Hamiltonian gyrofluid model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves retaining ion finite Larmor radius corrections and parallel magnetic field fluctuations is used to study direct turbulent cascades from the MHD to the sub-ion scales. For…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem , D. Laveder

We investigate the scale-locality of cascades of conserved invariants at high kinetic and magnetic Reynolds numbers in the ``inertial-inductive range'' of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, where velocity and magnetic field increments…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Hussein Aluie , Gregory L. Eyink

We investigate possible links between the large-scale and small-scale features of solar wind fluctuations across the frequency break separating fluid and kinetic regimes. The aim is to correlate the magnetic field fluctuations polarization…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 D. Telloni , R. Bruno

Turbulence is a ubiquitous process that transfers energy across many spatial and temporal scales, thereby influencing particle transport and heating. Recent progress has improved our understanding of the anisotropy of turbulence with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Chuanpeng Hou

Helical magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with Hall effects is ubiquitous in heliophysics and plasma physics, such as star formation and solar activities, and its intrinsic mechanisms are still not clearly explained. Direct numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Running Hu , Jin-Han Xie , Xinliang Li , Changping Yu , Yuan Hu , Jianchun Wang , Shiyi Chen

Dynamo action owing to helically forced turbulence and large-scale shear is studied using direct numerical simulations. The resulting magnetic field displays propagating wave-like behavior. This behavior can be modelled in terms of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg

We investigate the influence of a uniform magnetic field ${\bf B_0}=B_0 e//$ on energy decay laws in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. The nonlinear transfer reduction along $B_0$ is included in a model that distinguishes…

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

The interaction between Alfven-wave turbulence and the background solar wind affects the cross helicity in two ways. Non-WKB reflection converts outward-propagating Alfven waves into inward-propagating Alfven waves and vice versa, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Jean C. Perez , Daniel Verscharen , Kristopher G. Klein , Alfred Mallet

Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are observed in various systems in space and laboratories, demonstrating an interesting property that the wave shapes are stable even in the nonlinear regime. The ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hamdi M. Abdelhamid , Zensho Yoshida

The energy cascade of electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) turbulence is considered. Fractal and multi-fractal models for the energy dissipation field are used to determine the spatial intermittency corrections to the scaling behavior in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-03 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence affects both terrestrial and astrophysical plasmas. The properties of magnetized turbulence must be better understood to more accurately characterize these systems. This work presents ideal MHD simulations of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-28 Forrest W. Glines , Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea