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The evolution of magnetic fields is studied using simulations of forced helical turbulence with strong imposed shear. After some initial exponential growth, the magnetic field develops a large scale travelling wave pattern. The resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Axel Brandenburg , Alberto Bigazzi , Kandaswamy Subramanian

An effect of a mean velocity shear on a turbulence and on the effective force which is determined by the gradient of Reynolds stresses is studied. Generation of a mean vorticity in a homogeneous incompressible turbulent flow with an imposed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Elperin , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

A mean-field theory of the electrodynamics of a turbulent fluid is formulated under the assumption that the molecular electric conductivity is correlated with the turbulent velocity fluctuation in the (radial) direction, $\mathbf{g}$. It is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-03 Oliver Gressel , Günther Rüdiger , Detlef Elstner

We study the evolution of kinetic and magnetic energy spectra in magnetohydrodynamic flows in the presence of strong cross helicity. For forced turbulence, we find weak inverse transfer of kinetic energy toward the smallest wavenumber. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Axel Brandenburg , Sean Oughton

We perform direct numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with kinetic energy and cross helicity injections at large scales. We observe that the cross helicity changes sign as we go from large and intermediate scales…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 V. Titov , R. Stepanov , N. Yokoi , M. Verma , R. Samtaney

We investigated a plasma system with kinematic viscosity ($\nu = 0.006$) and magnetic diffusivity ($\eta = 0.006$), driven by helical kinetic energy, to study the dynamics of energy and helicity in magnetic diffusion. Using the numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Kiwan Park

The evolution of the magnetic helicity tensor for a nonzero mean magnetic field and for large magnetic Reynolds numbers in an anisotropic turbulence is studied. It is shown that the isotropic and anisotropic parts of the magnetic helicity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

Using the results of laboratory experiments and direct numerical simulations, as well as observations of the full-disc solar magnetic field and sunspot number dynamics, it is demonstrated that cross-helicity can dominate the frequency power…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-16 A. Bershadskii

Using results of laboratory experiments, direct numerical simulations, geomagnetic and solar observations, it is shown that high moments of helicity distribution can dominate power spectra of the magnetic field generated by the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-30 A. Bershadskii

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

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

We show that oppositely directed fluxes of energy and magnetic helicity coexist in the inertial range in fully developed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with small-scale sources of magnetic helicity. Using a helical shell model of MHD…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Rodion Stepanov , Peter Frick , Irina Mizeva

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 consider the problem of incompressible, forced, nonhelical, homogeneous, isotropic MHD turbulence with no mean magnetic field. This problem is essentially different from the case with externally imposed uniform mean field. There is no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , S. F. Taylor , J. L. Maron , J. C. McWilliams

A joint effect of the density-stratified turbulence (or inhomogeneous turbulence) and a large-scale shear for arbitrary Mach numbers results in the $\alpha$ effect and mean-field dynamo action. These effects also produce the effective…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-19 Igor Rogachevskii , Nathan Kleeorin

Different results for the cascade power in strong, incompressible MHD turbulence with nonzero cross helicity appear in the literature. In this paper, we discuss the conditions under which these different results are valid. We define z+ to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-05 Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Eliot Quataert , Gregory G. Howes , Joseph V. Hollweg , William Dorland

We study an example of instability in presence of a multiplicative noise, namely the spontaneous generation of a magnetic field in a turbulent medium. This so-called turbulent dynamo problem remains challenging, experimentally and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Nicolas Leprovost , Bérengère Dubrulle

We study a nonlinear quenching of turbulent magnetic diffusion and effective drift velocity of large-scale magnetic field in a developed two-dimensional MHD turbulence at large magnetic Reynolds numbers. We show that transport of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

To understand magnetic diffusion, momentum transport, and mixing in the interior of the sun, we consider an idealized model of the tachocline, namely magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) turbulence on a $\beta$ plane subject to a large scale shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Nicolas Leprovost , Eun-Jin Kim

We present direct numerical simulations and alpha-model simulations of four familiar three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence effects: selective decay, dynamic alignment, inverse cascade of magnetic helicity, and the helical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. D. Mininni , D. C. Montgomery , A. Pouquet
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