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One of the most important predictions in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is that in the presence of a uniform magnetic field $\textbf{b}_{0}$ a transition from weak to strong wave turbulence should occur when going from large to small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 Romain Meyrand , Sebastien Galtier , Khurom H. Kiyani

Vortex-magnetic interactions shape magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, influencing energy transfer in astrophysical, geophysical, and industrial systems. On the Sun, granular-scale vortex flows couple strongly with magnetic fields,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-15 Weiyu Shen , Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico , Xiaojue Zhu

In magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows, incompressibility is assumed for low Mach numbers. However, even at low Mach numbers, the Mach number influences flow and magnetic fields. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a method that can stably…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Hideki Yanaoka

Analyzing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows requires accurate predictions of the Lorentz force and energy conversion. Total energy, cross-helicity, and magnetic helicity can be used to investigate energy conservation properties in inviscid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-03 Hideki Yanaoka

The inverse cascade of magnetic energy occurs when helicity or rotational instability exists in the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system. This well known phenomenon has been considered as a basis for the large scale magnetic field in universe.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Kiwan Park

We analyze the effect of the Hall term in the magnetohydrodynamic turbulence under a strong externally supported magnetic field, seeing how this changes the energy cascade, the characteristic scales of the flow and the dynamics of global…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 L. N. Martin , P. Dmitruk , D. O. Gomez

We investigate the transfer of energy from large scales to small scales in fully developed forced three-dimensional MHD-turbulence by analyzing the results of direct numerical simulations in the absence of an externally imposed uniform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Alexandros Alexakis , Pablo D. Mininni , Annick Pouquet

The ideal invariants present in the formalism of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), i.e. global quantities that are conserved in the absence of sources and dissipative effects, play an important role in various theoretical and numerical studies of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-08-15 B. Teaca , C. C. Lalescu , B. Knaepen , D. Carati

Using highly resolved direct numerical simulations we examine the statistical properties of the local energy flux rate $\Pi_\ell(x)$ towards small scales for three isotropic turbulent magnetohydrodynamic flows, which differ in strength and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-26 Alexandros Alexakis , Sergio Chibbaro

The inverse transfer of magnetic helicity is investigated through direct numerical simulations of large-scale-mechanically-driven turbulent flows in the isothermal ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) framework. The mechanical forcing is either…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Wolf-Christian Müller

Aims. We investigated plasma turbulence in the context of solar wind. We concentrated on properties of ideal second-order magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall MHD invariants. Methods. We studied the results of a two-dimensional hybrid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Petr Hellinger , Victor Montagud-Camps

Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial plasmas but no universal theory exists. Even the detailed energy dynamics in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are still not well understood. We present a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-06 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

The coupled equations that describe the effect of large-scale magnetic and velocity fields on forced high-diffusivity magnetohydrodynamic flows are investigated through an extension of mean field electrodynamics. Our results generalise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Courvoisier , D. W. Hughes , M. R. E. Proctor

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

Using direct numerical simulations of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics, we study reversals of the magnetic field generated by the flow of an electrically conducting fluid in a sphere. We show that at low magnetic Prandtl numbers,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Pankaj Mishra , Christophe Gissinger , Emmanuel Dormy , Stephan Fauve

We discuss the effects of nonhomogeneous magnetic fields in liquid metal flows in two different configurations. In the first configuration, we briefly report the impact of fringing magnetic fields in a turbulent Rayleigh-B{\'e}nard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-21 Shashwat Bhattacharya , Seyed Loghman Sanjari , Dmitry Krasnov , Thomas Boeck

Turbulence in an incompressible fluid with and without a magnetic field as well as moderately compressible MHD turbulence are compared. For the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models the probability distribution functions of the velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas Hall , G. Kowal , A. Lazarian , Jungyeon Cho

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a subject concerned with the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids (plasma) and can be applied in electric power generation. As a unique technology for producing direct-current electricity without moving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Osama A. Marzouk

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

We simulate forced quasi-static magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and investigate the anisotropy, energy spectrum, and energy flux of the flow, specially for large interaction parameters ($N$). We show that the angular dependence of the energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-17 K. Sandeep Reddy , Mahendra K. Verma