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The ubiquitous turbulence in astrophysical plasmas is important for both magnetic reconnection and reconnection acceleration. We study the particle acceleration during fast 3D turbulent reconnection with reconnection-driven turbulence.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

Following recent evidence that the vortices in decaying two-dimensional turbulence can be classified into small--mobile, and large--quasi-stationary, this paper examines the evidence that the latter might be considered a `crystal' whose…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-04 Javier Jiménez

We formulate a statistical wave-mechanical approach to describe dissipation and instabilities in two-dimensional turbulent flows of magnetized plasmas and atmospheric fluids, such as drift and Rossby waves. This is made possible by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

Turbulence in fluids, gases, and plasmas remains an open problem of both practical and fundamental importance. Its irreducible complexity usually cannot be tackled computationally in a brute-force style. Here, we combine Large Eddy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Robin Greif , Frank Jenko , Nils Thuerey

Synthetic turbulence is a relevant tool to study complex astrophysical and space plasma environments inaccessible by direct simulation. However, conventional models lack intermittent coherent structures, which are essential in realistic…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Jeremiah Lübke , Frederic Effenberger , Mike Wilbert , Horst Fichtner , Rainer Grauer

Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous in magnetized astrophysical plasmas, and it radically changes a great variety of astrophysical processes. In this review, we give the concept of MHD turbulence and explain the origin of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Elena Popova , Alexandre Lazarian

The problem of anomalous diffusion in momentum space is considered for plasma-like systems on the basis of a new collision integral, which is appropriate for consideration of the probability transition function (PTF) with long tails in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. A. Trigger , W. Ebeling , G. J. F. van Heijst , P. P. J. M. Schram , I. M. Sokolov

A refined cascade model for kinetic turbulence in weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas is presented that includes both the transition between weak and strong turbulence and the effect of nonlocal interactions on the nonlinear transfer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. G. Howes , J. M. TenBarge , W. Dorland

Recent years have been marked by substantial changes in our understanding of magnetic turbulence and magnetic reconnection, which, in its turn induced better understanding of cosmic ray diffusion and acceleration. Current models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-12 A. Lazarian , G. Brunetti

The JHU turbulence database [1] can be used with a state of the art visualisation tool [2] to generate high quality fluid dynamics videos. In this work we investigate the classical idea that smaller structures in turbulent flows, while…

The ion kinetic energy in a stagnating plasma was previously determined by Kroupp et al. (Kroupp et al., 2011), from Doppler-dominated lineshapes augmented by measurements of plasma properties and assuming a uniform-plasma model. Notably,…

Recently, particle in cell (PIC) simulations have shown that relativistic turbulence in collisionless plasmas can result in an equilibrium particle distribution function where turbulent heating is balanced by radiative cooling of electrons.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 Zachary Davis , Jesús M. Rueda-Becerril , Dimitrios Giannios

Due to its ubiquitous presence, turbulence is often invoked to explain the origin of nonthermal particles in astrophysical sources of high-energy emission. With particle-in-cell simulations, we study decaying turbulence in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-21 Luca Comisso , Lorenzo Sironi

The small-scale turbulent dynamo is an important process contributing to the cosmic magnetization. In partially ionized astrophysical plasmas, the dynamo growth of magnetic energy strongly depends on the coupling state between ions and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Siyao Xu , Sudip K. Garain , Dinshaw S. Balsara , A. Lazarian

One of the most intensely studied aspects of magnetic confinement fusion is edge plasma turbulence which is critical to reactor performance and operation. Drift-reduced Braginskii two-fluid theory has for decades been widely applied to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Abhilash Mathews , Manaure Francisquez , Jerry Hughes , David Hatch , Ben Zhu , Barrett Rogers

The transition from laminar to turbulent flow is an immensely important topic that is still being studied. Here we show that complex plasmas, i.e., microparticles immersed in a low temperature plasma, make it possible to study the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Eshita Joshi , Markus H Thoma , Mierk Schwabe

In magnetized plasmas gravitational and electromagnetic waves may interact coherently and exchange energy between themselves and with plasma flows. We derive the wave interaction equations for these processes in the case of waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Servin , Gert Brodin

Particle-laden turbulence involves complex interactions between the dispersed and continuous phases. Given that particles can exhibit a wide range of properties, such as varying density, size, and shape, their interplay with the flow can…

The dynamics of a relativistic blast wave propagating through magnetized medium is considered taking into account possible inhomogeneities of density and magnetic field and additional energy supply. Under the simplifying assumption of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maxim Lyutikov

The chaotic dynamics of small-scale vorticity plays a key role in understanding and controlling turbulence, with direct implications for energy transfer, mixing, and coherent structure evolution. However, measuring or controlling its…