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The dynamo mechanism is a process of magnetic field self-excitation in a moving electrically conducting fluid. One of the most interesting applications of this mechanism related to the astrophysical systems is the case of a random motion of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 E. A. Illarionov , D. D. Sokoloff

The small-scale dynamo provides a highly efficient mechanism for the conversion of turbulent into magnetic energy. In astrophysical environments, such turbulence often occurs at high Mach numbers, implying steep slopes in the turbulent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefano Bovino , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Jennifer Schober

The amplification of magnetic fields in a highly conducting fluid is studied numerically. During growth, the magnetic field is spatially intermittent: it does not uniformly fill the volume, but is concentrated in long thin folded…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , J. L. Maron , J. C. McWilliams

Magnetic fields pervade the entire Universe and affect the formation and evolution of astrophysical systems from cosmological to planetary scales. The generation and dynamical amplification of extragalactic magnetic fields through cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 F. Rincon , F. Califano , A. A. Schekochihin , F. Valentini

Recently, a theoretical framework known as {\it ballistic macroscopic fluctuation theory} has been developed to study large-scale fluctuations and correlations in many-body systems exhibiting ballistic transport. In this paper, we review…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-01 Anupam Kundu

Amplification of magnetic field due to kinematic turbulent dynamo action is studied in the regime of small magnetic Prandtl numbers. Such a regime is relevant for planets and stars interiors, as well as for liquid metal laboratory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Leonid M. Malyshkin , Stanislav Boldyrev

By using recent developments for the Langevin dynamics of spatially asymmetric systems, we routinely generalize the Onsager-Machlup fluctuation theory of the second order in time. In this form, it becomes applicable to fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-28 Roman Belousov , E. G. D. Cohen

Using linear kinetic plasma theory the relation between electron density and magnetic field fluctuations for low-frequency plasma waves for Maxwellian background distribution functions of arbitrary temperatures in an uniform magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Schlickeiser , I. Lerche

The first galaxies form due to gravitational collapse of primordial halos. During this collapse, weak magnetic seed fields get amplified exponentially by the small-scale dynamo - a process converting kinetic energy from turbulence into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jennifer Schober , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Ralf S. Klessen , Christoph Federrath , Stefano Bovino , Simon Glover , Robi Banerjee

Kolmogorov flow in two dimensions - the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with a sinusoidal body force - is considered over extended periodic domains to reveal localised spatiotemporal complexity. The flow response mimicks the forcing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Dan Lucas , Rich R. Kerswell

We study magnetic field evolution in flows with fluctuating in time governing parameters in electrically conducting fluid. We use a standard mean-field approach to derive equations for large-scale magnetic field for the fluctuating ABC-flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , D. Sokoloff , D. Tomin

A method is proposed for computing coefficients in the Kazantsev equation of small-scale dynamo for the full spectrum of hydromagnetic turbulence comprising the inertial range together with the range of viscous dissipation. The dynamo…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-03 Leonid Kitchatinov

We present the results of a numerical investigation of the turbulent kinematic dynamo problem in a high Prandtl number regime. The scales of the magnetic turbulence we consider are far smaller than the Kolmogorov dissipative scale, so that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. West , S. Nazarenko , J. P. Laval , S. Galtier

In this study we discuss two key issues related to a small-scale dynamo instability at low magnetic Prandtl numbers and large magnetic Reynolds numbers, namely: (i) the scaling for the growth rate of small-scale dynamo instability in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

The Landau-Lifshitz fluctuating hydrodynamics is used to study the statistical properties of the linearized Kolmogorov flow. The relative simplicity of this flow allows a detailed analysis of the fluctuation spectrum from near equilibrium…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Bena , M. Malek Mansour , F. Baras

It has recently been pointed out that Hamiltonian particle systems in constant magnetic fields satisfy generalized time-reversal symmetries that enable to prove useful statistical relationships based on equilibrium phase-space probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-24 Alessandro Coretti , Lamberto Rondoni , Sara Bonella

The correlation tensors of magnetic field in a two-dimensional chaotic flow of conducting fluid are studied. It is shown that there is a stage of resistive evolution where the field correlators grow exponentially with time what contradicts…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Igor Kolokolov

A linearised kinetic equation describing electrostatic perturbations of a Maxwellian equilibrium in a weakly collisional plasma forced by a random source is considered. The problem is treated as a kinetic analogue of the Langevin equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 A. Kanekar , A. A. Schekochihin , W. Dorland , N. F. Loureiro

A key feature of turbulent suspensions that involve floating particles on the surface or inertial particles in the bulk is the compressibility of the effective particle-phase velocity field. Little, however, is known about the effects of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-10 Dipankar Roy , Marco Martins Afonso , Jason R. Picardo , Dario Vincenzi

Using spatio-temporal spectra we show direct evidence of excitation of magnetosonic and Alfv\'en waves in three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence at small Mach numbers. For the plasma pressure dominated regime, or high…