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Turbulent properties of the quiet Sun represent the basic state of surface conditions, and a background for various processes of solar activity. Therefore understanding of properties and dynamics of this `basic' state is important for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 I. N. Kitiashvili , V. I. Abramenko , P. R. Goode , A. G. Kosovichev , S. K. Lele , N. N. Mansour , A. A. Wray , V. B. Yurchyshyn

Theoretical considerations are made of superfluid turbulence in the Kelvin wave cascade regime at low temperatures (T < 1K) and length scales of the order or smaller than the intervortical distance. The energy spectrum is shown to be in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-07 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

The k-filtering technique and wave polarization analysis are applied to Cluster magnetic field data to study plasma turbulence at the scale of the ion gyroradius in the fast solar wind. Waves are found propagating in directions nearly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Owen W. Roberts , Xing Li , Bo Li

An isolated, isothermal, and wide magnetic flux tube embedded either in the solar chromosphere or in the lower solar corona is considered, and the propagation of linear torsional Alfv'en waves is investigated. It is shown that the wideness…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 Swati Routh , Z. E. Musielak , M. N. Sundar , Sai Sravanthi Joshi , Sree Charan

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 possibility of slow diffusion regions as the origin for extended TeV emission halos around some pulsars (such as PSR J0633+1746 and PSR B0656+14) challenges the standard scaling of the electron diffusion coefficient in the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-14 Illya Plotnikov , Allard Jan van Marle , Claire Guépin , Alexandre Marcowith , Pierrick Martin

Quasi-periodic propagating intensity disturbances have been observed in large coronal loops in EUV images over a decade, and are widely accepted to be slow magnetosonic waves. However, spectroscopic observations from Hinode/EIS revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 X. Fang , D. Yuan , T. Van Doorsselaere , R. Keppens , C. Xia

In the comment I develop a critical analysis of the use of the HVBK method for the study of three-dimensional turbulent flows of superfluids. The conception of the vortex bundles forming the structure of quantum turbulence is controversial…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-09 Sergey K. Nemirovskii

We investigate vortex breakdown (VB) and its dominant topologies in turbulent, non-reacting flows within a canonical swirl combustor using large-eddy simulations (LES). A baseline configuration and operating conditions are first used to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Nitesh Kumar Sahu , Anupam Dewan , Mayank Kumar

Current analytical and numerical modelling suggest the existence of ubiquitous thin current sheets in the corona that could explain the observed heating requirements. On the other hand, new high resolution observations of the corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Antolin , T. Yokoyama , T. Van Doorsselaere

Alfv\'enic turbulence in space is usually imbalanced: amplitudes of waves propagating parallel and anti-parallel to the mean magnetic field $B_0$ are unequal. It is commonly accepted that the turbulence is driven by (counter-)collisions…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Yuriy Voitenko , Johan De Keyser

In order to investigate the origin of the interstellar turbulence, detailed observations in the CO J=1--0 and 3--2 lines have been carried out in an interacting region of a molecular cloud with an HII region. As a result, several 1,000 to…

In this paper, weak turbulence theory is used to investigate the nonlinear evolution of the parametric instability in 3D low-$\beta$ plasmas at wavelengths much greater than the ion inertial length under the assumption that slow…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Turbulent magnetic fields fill most of the volume of the solar atmosphere. However, their spatial and temporal variations are still unknown. Since 2007, during the current solar minimum, we are periodically monitoring several wavelength…

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A weak wave turbulence theory is developed for two-dimensional (2D) magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We derive and analyze the kinetic equation describing the three-wave interactions of pseudo-Alfv\'en waves. Our analysis is greatly helped by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Natalia Tronko , Sergey V. Nazarenko , Sebastien Galtier

Excitations in the form of quantized vortex rings are known to exist in superfluid $^{4}He$ at energies and momenta exceeding those of the Landau phonon-roton spectrum. They form a vortex branch of elementary excitations spectrum which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Eugene B. Kolomeisky

We analyze the effect of a sunspot in its quiet surroundings applying a helioseismic technique on almost three years of Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) observations obtained during solar cycle 24 to further study the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 M. Cristina Rabello-Soares , Richard S. Bogart , Philip H. Scherrer

We present a cascade model for turbulence in weakly collisional plasmas that follows the nonlinear cascade of energy from the large scales of driving in the MHD regime to the small scales of the kinetic Alfven wave regime where the…

We present numerical simulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence in a magnetic flux tube at the center of a polar coronal hole. The model for the background atmosphere is a solution of the momentum equation, and includes…

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