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Turbulent high-energy astrophysical systems often feature asymmetric energy injection: for instance, Alfven waves propagating from an accretion disk into its corona. Such systems are "imbalanced": the energy fluxes parallel and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Amelia Hankla , Vladimir Zhdankin , Gregory Werner , Dmitri Uzdensky , Mitchell Begelman

HERMES is a scientific mission composed of 3U nano-satellites dedicated to the detection and localization of high-energy astrophysical transients, with a distributed space architecture to form a constellation in Earth orbits. The space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Andrea Colagrossi , Jacopo Prinetto , Stefano Silvestrini , Michèle Lavagna

We show in this article direct evidence for the presence of an inertial energy cascade, the most characteristic signature of hydromagnetic turbulence (MHD), in the solar wind as observed by the Ulysses spacecraft. After a brief rederivation…

Turbulence is a crucial component of dynamics of astrophysical fluids dynamics, including those of ISM, clusters of galaxies and circumstellar regions. Doppler shifted spectral lines provide a unique source of information on turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 A. Lazarian

Fireball networks establish the trajectories of meteoritic material passing through Earth's atmosphere, from which they can derive pre-entry orbits. Triangulated atmospheric trajectory data requires different orbit determination methods to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Trent Jansen-Sturgeon , Eleanor K. Sansom , Philip A. Bland

The rotational dynamics of anisotropic particles advected in a turbulent fluid flow are important in many industrial and natural setting. Particle rotations are controlled by small scale properties of turbulence that are nearly universal,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-19 Shima Parsa , Enrico Calzavarini , Federico Toschi , Greg A. Voth

The role of turbulence in various astrophysical settings is reviewed. Among the differences to laboratory and atmospheric turbulence we highlight the ubiquitous presence of magnetic fields that are generally produced and maintained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Axel Brandenburg , Aake Nordlund

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

In this second part of our two-part paper, we provide a detailed, frequentist framework for propagating uncertainties within our multivariate linear least squares model. This permits us to quantify the impact of uncertainties in…

Applications · Statistics 2019-08-09 Pranay Seshadri , Andrew Duncan , Duncan Simpson , George Thorne , Geoffrey Parks

The theoretical study of the self-organization of two-dimensional and geophysical turbulent flows is addressed based on statistical mechanics methods. This review is a self-contained presentation of classical and recent works on this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-31 Freddy Bouchet , Antoine Venaille

Emission in spectral lines can provide unique information on interstellar turbulence. Doppler shifts due to supersonic motions contain information on turbulent velocity field which is otherwise difficult to measure. However, the problem of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Lazarian

New solar wind data from the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, together with the SOHO SWAN measurements of the direction that neutral hydrogen enters into the inner heliosheath and neutral helium measurements provided by multiple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikolai V. Pogorelov , Jacob Heerikhuisen , Gary P. Zank

Correlation anisotropy emerges dynamically in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), producing stronger gradients across the large-scale mean magnetic field than along it. This occurs both globally and locally, and has significant implications in…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 W. H. Matthaeus , S. Servidio , P. Dmitruk , V. Carbone , S. Oughton , M. Wan , K. T. Osman

This work explores a novel approach to mitigating turbulence in fusion plasmas through spatially modulated plasma profiles. By imposing a harmonic modulation on plasma parameters, we introduce conditions that alter the propagation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Ilya Shesterikov

How the turbulent energy cascade develops below the magnetohydrodynamic scales in space and astrophysical plasmas is a major open question. Here, we measure the power spectrum of magnetic fluctuations in Parker Solar Probe's observations…

Hydraulic jumps are oftentimes encountered in natural and human-made environments. The transition from supercritical to subcritical flow involves large energy dissipation rates and substantial air entrainment, preventing the use of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-26 Matthias Kramer , Daniel Valero

During the last few decades, great effort has been made towards understanding hydrodynamical processes which determine the structure and evolution of stars. Up to now, the most stringent constraints have been provided by helioseismology and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jadwiga Daszynska-Daszkiewicz

Observations of the interstellar medium (ISM) show a complex density and velocity structure which is in part attributed to turbulence. We here present a self-contained introduction to the multifractal formalism in a microcanonical version…

The analysis of turbulence in plasmas is fundamental in fusion research. Despite extensive progress in theoretical modeling in the past 15 years, we still lack a complete and consistent understanding of turbulence in magnetic confinement…

The large scale features of the solar wind are examined in order to predict small scale features of turbulence in unexplored regions of the heliosphere. The strategy is to examine how system size, or effective Reynolds number, varies, and…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Tulasi N. Parashar , Manuel Cuesta , William H. Matthaeus