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The exact law for fully developed homogeneous compressible magnetohydrodynamics (CMHD) turbulence is derived. For an isothermal plasma, without the assumption of isotropy, the exact law is expressed as a function of the plasma velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Nahuel Andrés , Fouad Sahraoui

The constraint of incompressibility is often used to simplify the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description of linearized plasma dynamics because it does not affect the ideal MHD marginal stability point. In this paper two methods for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. F. McMillan , R. L. Dewar , R. G. Storer

Especially in cold and high-density regions, the assumptions of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can break down, making first order non-ideal terms such as Ohmic and ambipolar diffusion as well as the Hall effect important. In this study we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 Oliver Zier , Volker Springel , Alexander C. Mayer

Extended MHD is a one-fluid model that incorporates two-fluid effects such as electron inertia and the Hall drift. This model is used to construct fully nonlinear Alfv\'enic wave solutions, and thereby derive the kinetic and magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Hamdi M. Abdelhamid , Manasvi Lingam , Swadesh M. Mahajan

Performing accurate large eddy simulations in compressible, turbulent magnetohydrodynamics is more challenging than in non-magnetized fluids due to the complex interplay between kinetic, magnetic and internal energy at different scales.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 Daniele Viganò , Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Carlos Palenzuela

The stability of an initially one-dimensional electron hole to perturbations varying sinusoidally transverse to its trapping direction is analysed in detail. It is shown that the expected low-frequency eigenmode of the linearized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 I H Hutchinson

In this paper, we solve a long-standing open problem: nonlinear stability of current-vortex sheet in the ideal incompressible Magneto-Hydrodynamics under the linear stability condition. This result gives a first rigorous confirmation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Yongzhong Sun , Wei Wang , Zhifei Zhang

Compressible turbulence, especially the magnetized version of it, traditionally has a bad reputation with researchers. However, recent progress in theoretical understanding of incompressible MHD as well as that in computational capabilities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

We study current flow around a density inhomogeneity in a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The inhomogeneity is parametrized by a power-law tail with an exponent $\beta > 2$. We show that current and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 P. S. Parashar , M. M. Fogler

We carry out a comprehensive analysis of the behavior of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in viscous, resistive plasmas. We find exact, non-linear solutions of the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations describing the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin E. Pessah , Chi-kwan Chan

To predict the immediate evolution of a plasma system, one needs to identify the nature of the dominant instability. In this work, a neural network is employed to address a non-binary classification problem of instabilities in astrophysical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Jordi De Jonghe , Michał D. Kuczyński

We study the role of the Hall current and electron inertia in collisionless magnetic reconnection within the framework of full two-fluid MHD. At spatial scales smaller than the electron inertial length, a topological change of magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Nahuel Andrés , Pablo Dmitruk , Daniel Gómez

An extended inertial range dominated by the cross-helicity effects has been studied for forced (statistically steady) and for freely decaying magnetohydrodynamic MHD turbulence (with and without imposed/mean magnetic field) using the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-24 A. Bershadskii

Besides total energy, three-dimensional incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) possesses two inviscid invariants which are the magnetic helicity and the generalized helicity. New exact relations are derived for homogeneous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-30 Supratik Banerjee , Sebastien Galtier

Many natural and engineering systems involve the mixing of two fluid streams, in which the effects of density and viscosity gradients play important roles in determining flow stability. We perform linear stability calculations for a jet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jinwei Yang , Vinod Srinivasan

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

We present an analysis of data stemming from numerical simulations of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence up to grid resolution of 1536^3 points and up to Taylor Reynolds number of 1200. The initial conditions are such that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

Parker instability leads to the formation of tangential discontinuities in a magnetic field and subsequent magnetic reconnection due to a numerical and/or an explicit resistivity. In this paper we investigate the role of the uniform,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Grzegorz Kowal , Michal Hanasz , Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur

This work presents a non-local terahertz metasurface integrated into a leaky-wave antenna for robust, wide-angle beam steering. The metasurface encodes a holographic pattern by explicitly inducing tangential and normal susceptibilities,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Seokjun Kim , Haneul Ryu , Minseok Kim

We derive the exact law for three-dimensional (3D) homogeneous compressible isothermal Hall magnetohydrodynamics (CHMHD) turbulence, without the assumption of isotropy. The Hall current is shown to introduce new flux and sources terms that…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Nahuel Andrés , Sébastien Galtier , Fouad Sahraoui