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Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial systems but no complete, uncontested theory even in the simplest form, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), exists. Many theories and phenomenologies focus on the joint…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

The theory of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence predicts that Alfv\'enic and slow-mode-like compressive fluctuations are energetically decoupled at small scales in the inertial range. The partition of energy between these fluctuations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-10 Y. Kawazura , A. A. Schekochihin , M. Barnes , W. Dorland , S. A. Balbus

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest description of magnetic plasma turbulence in a variety of astrophysical and laboratory systems. MHD turbulence with nonzero cross helicity is often called imbalanced, as it implies that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jean Carlos Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is invoked to address turbulent fluctuations in a variety of astrophysical systems. MHD turbulence in nature is often anisotropic and imbalanced, in that Alfvenic fluctuations moving in opposite directions along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-18 Jean C Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev

Many astrophysical fluids are magnetized and turbulent. Such fluids can be often described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In this review, we mainly consider MHD turbulence with a strong mean magnetic field whose energy density is greater…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Jungyeon Cho

Magnetic fields, compressibility and turbulence are important factors in many terrestrial and astrophysical processes. While energy dynamics, i.e. how energy is transferred within and between kinetic and magnetic reservoirs, has been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith , Wolfram Schmidt , Andrew Christlieb

We perform a suite of two- and three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with the Athena code of the non-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the subsonic, weak magnetic field limit. Focusing the analysis on the non-linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Greg Salvesen , Kris Beckwith , Jacob B. Simon , Sean M. O'Neill , Mitchell C. Begelman

Alfv\'enic interactions which transfer energy from large to small spatial scales lie at the heart of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. An important feature of the turbulence is the generation of negative residual energy -- excess energy in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 S. Dorfman , M. Abler , S. Boldyrev , C. H. K. Chen , S. Greess

Previous studies have established that a weak-to-strong transition occurs in Alfvenic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence as energy cascades from large to small scales. However, the spatiotemporal (frequency-wavenumber) properties of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Chuanpeng Hou , Ka Ho Yuen

Turbulence is a complex physical process prevalent in modern physics, particularly in ionized environments like interstellar gas, where magnetic fields play a dynamic role. However, the precise influence of magnetic fields in such settings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

We present numerical simulations and explore scalings and anisotropy of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Our study covers both gas pressure dominated (high beta) and magnetically dominated (low beta) plasmas at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

When magnetic energy density is much larger than that of matter, as in pulsar/black hole magnetospheres, the medium becomes force-free and we need relativity to describe it. As in non-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), Alfv\'enic MHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is an important agent of energetic particle acceleration. Focusing on the compressible properties of magnetic turbulence, we adopt test particle method to study the particle acceleration from Alfv\'en,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Jianfu Zhang , Fuyuan Xiang

We study the properties of sub-Alfvenic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, i.e., turbulence with Alfven Mach number $M_A=V_L/V_A<1$, where $V_L$ is the velocity at the injection scale and $V_A$ is the Alfven velocity. We demonstrate that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-28 Alex Lazarian , Ka Wai HO , Ka Ho Yuen , Ethan Vishniac

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence affects both terrestrial and astrophysical plasmas. The properties of magnetized turbulence must be better understood to more accurately characterize these systems. This work presents ideal MHD simulations of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-28 Forrest W. Glines , Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea

The shell-to-shell energy transfer rates for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are computed analytically, which shows local energy transfer rates from velocity to velocity, velocity to magnetic, magnetic to velocity, and magnetic to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-16 Mahendra K. Verma , Arvind Ayyer , Amar V. Chandra

The nonlinear dynamics of a bundle of magnetic flux ropes driven by stationary fluid motions at their endpoints is studied, by performing numerical simulations of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. The development of MHD turbulence is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pablo Dmitruk , Daniel O. Gomez , William H. Matthaeus

Plasma turbulence is a ubiquitous dynamical process that transfers energy across many spatial and temporal scales in astrophysical and space plasma systems. Although the theory of anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Ka Ho Yuen , Huizi Wang

In this Letter, we report compressible mode effects on relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence in Poynting-dominated plasmas using 3-dimensional numerical simulations. We decomposed fluctuations in the turbulence into 3 MHD modes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-09 Makoto Takamoto , Alexandre Lazarian

We derive one dimensional (1D) analytical solutions for the transport equations of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence developed by Zank et al. [2012], Adhikari et al. [2023], including the Els\"asser energies and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Bingbing Wang , Gary P. Zank , Laxman Adhikari , Swati Sharma
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