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A higher-order multiscale analysis of the dissipation range of collisionless plasma turbulence is presented using in-situ high-frequency magnetic field measurements from the Cluster spacecraft in a stationary interval of fast ambient solar…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 K. H. Kiyani , S. C. Chapman , Yu. V. Khotyaintsev , M. W. Dunlop

Turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial in the process of star formation. Shocks produced by supernova explosions, jets, radiation from massive stars, or galactic spiral-arm dynamics are amongst the most common drivers of…

The role of MHD turbulence in the cosmic ray acceleration process in a volume with a reconnecting magnetic field is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. We performed modelling of proton acceleration with the 3D analytic model of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomasz Kobak , Michal Ostrowski

Turbulence is a dominant feature operating in gaseous flows across nearly all scales in astrophysical environments. Accordingly, accurately estimating the statistical properties of such flows is necessary for developing a comprehensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-27 Lukas Konstandin , Rahul Shetty , Philipp Girichidis , Ralf S. Klessen

Turbulent space and astrophysical plasmas exhibit a complex dynamics, which involves nonlinear coupling across different temporal and spatial scales. There is growing evidence that impulsive events, such as magnetic reconnection…

We investigate exact results of isotropic turbulence in three-dimensions when the pressure gradient is negligible. We derive exact two-point correlation functions of density in three-dimensions and show that the density-density correlator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. R. Rastegar , M. R. Rahimi Tabar , P. Hawaii

This paper introduces a novel data driven framework for constructing accurate and general equivariant models of multiscale phenomena which does not rely on specific assumptions about the underlying physics. This framework is illustrated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-15 Brandon Choi , Matteo Ugliotti , Mateo Reynoso , Daniel R. Gurevich , Roman O. Grigoriev

The strength and vertical distribution of atmospheric turbulence is a key factor determining the performance of optical and infrared telescopes, with and without adaptive optics. Yet, this remains challenging to measure. We describe a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-11 Paul Hickson , Bin Ma , Zhaohui Shang , Suijian Xue

The universal conductance fluctuations of quasi-two-dimensional systems are analyzed with experimental considerations in mind. The traditional statistical metrics of these fluctuations (such as variance) are shown to have large statistical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 M. B. Lundeberg , J. Renard , J. A. Folk

The phenomenology of the scaling behavior of higher order structure functions of velocity differences across a scale $R$ in turbulence should be built around the irreducible representations of the rotation symmetry group. Every irreducible…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Victor S. L'vov , Evgenii Podivilov , Itamar Procaccia

We review the use of velocity centroids statistics to recover information of interstellar turbulence from observations. Velocity centroids have been used for a long time now to retrieve information about the scaling properties of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-01-23 A. Esquivel , A. Lazarian

We perform three-dimensional (3D) compressible MHD simulations over many dynamical times for an extended range of sonic and Alfven Mach numbers and analyze the statistics of 3D density and 2D column density, which include probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 G. Kowal , A. Lazarian , A. Beresnyak

Many low-frequency radio interferometers are aiming to detect very faint spectral signatures from structures at cosmological redshifts, particularly of neutral Hydrogen using its characteristic 21 cm spectral line. Due to the very high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-03 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Chris Carilli

Several recent imaging experiments access the equilibrium density profiles of interacting particles confined to a two-dimensional substrate. When these particles are in a fluid phase, we show that such data yields precise information…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Ankush Sengupta , Surajit Sengupta , Gautam I. Menon

Two dimensional passive scalar turbulence is studied by means of a k-space diffusion model based on a third order differential approximation. This simple description of local nonlinear interactions in Fourier space is shown to present a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-08 Pierre Morel , Shaokang Xu , Özgür D. Gürcan

We present a new analysis of the anisotropic spectral energy distribution in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence permeated by a strong mean magnetic field. The turbulent flow is generated by high-resolution pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roland Grappin , Wolf-Christian Müller

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

Using test-particle simulations, we investigate the temporal dependence of the two-point velocity correlation function for charged particles scattering in a time-independent spatially fluctuating magnetic field derived from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Federico Fraschetti , Joe Giacalone

An energy-spectrum bottleneck, a bump in the turbulence spectrum between the inertial and dissipation ranges, is shown to occur in the non-turbulent, one-dimensional, hyperviscous Burgers equation and found to be the Fourier-space signature…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-01 Uriel Frisch , Samriddhi Sankar Ray , Ganapati Sahoo , Debarghya Banerjee , Rahul Pandit

Passive scalars advected by a magnetically driven two-dimensional turbulent flow are analyzed using methods of statistical topography. The passive tracer concentration is interpreted as the height of a random surface and the scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Kondev , G. Huber