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Disc-winds originating from the inner parts of accretion discs are considered as the basic component of magnetically collimated outflows. The only available analytical MHD solutions to describe disc-driven jets are those characterized by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Matthias Stute , Jose Gracia , Nektarios Vlahakis , Kanaris Tsinganos , Andrea Mignone , Silvano Massaglia

We consider the generation of magnetic activity --- dynamo waves --- in the astrophysical limit of very large magnetic Reynolds number. We consider kinematic dynamo action for a system consisting of helical flow and large-scale shear. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Fausto Cattaneo , Steven Tobias

Understanding the in situ amplification of large scale magnetic fields in turbulent astrophysical rotators has been a core subject of dynamo theory. When turbulent velocities are helical, large scale dynamos that substantially amplify…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-22 Jonathan Pietarila Graham , Eric G. Blackman , Pablo D. Mininni , Annick Pouquet

Till now the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of the reversed field pinch (RFP) has been performed by assuming axis-symmetric radial time independent dissipation profiles. In helical states this assumption is not correct since these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 D. Bonfiglio , S. Cappello , D. F. Escande

We present MHD simulations exploring the launching, acceleration and collimation of jets and disk winds. The evolution of the disk structure is consistently taken into account. Extending our earlier studies, we now consider the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Deniss Stepanovs , Christian Fendt , Somayeh Sheikhnezami

Since its commissioning in 1977, the U-120M cyclotron has been equipped with one pair of harmonic coils dedicated to establishing optimal beam quality at low accelerating radii. In 2022, the cyclotron was upgraded and a second pair of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Tomáš Matlocha , Jan Štursa , Radek Běhal , Václav Zach , Milan Čihák

Direct numerical simulations are performed for the steady flow normal to a circular disk at the Reynolds number of 1000. Numerical simulations are conducted with different levels of simplification procedure by reducing the azimuthal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-26 Xinliang Tian

We use a simple model of Bullard-type disc dynamo, in which the disc rotation rate is subject to harmonic oscillations, to analyze the generation of magnetic field by the parametric resonance mechanism. The problem is governed by a damped…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-08-14 Jānis Priede , Raúl Avalos-Zúñiga , Franck Plunian

The exact relativistic treatment of a rotating disk surrounded by a magnetized material halo is presented. The features of the halo and disk are described by the distributional energy-momentum tensor of a general fluid in canonical form.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Antonio C. Gutiérrez-Piñeres , Abraão J. S. Capistrano

We use a 3D radiative non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to investigate the formation and evolution of a young protostellar disc from a magnetized pre-stellar core. The simulation covers the first ${\sim}10~{\rm kyr}$ after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Wenrui Xu , Matthew W. Kunz

The formation of rotationally supported protostellar disks is suppressed in ideal MHD in non-turbulent cores with aligned magnetic field and rotation axis. A promising way to resolve this so-called "magnetic braking catastrophe" is through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Hsien Shang , Bo Zhao

Analytical solution of ${\alpha}$-dynamo equation representing strongly torsioned helical dynamo is obtained in the thin twisted Riemannian flux tubes approximation. The $\alpha$ factor possesses a fundamental contribution from torsion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-27 Garcia de Andrade

In most current debris disc models, the dynamical and the collisional evolutions are studied separately, with N-body and statistical codes, respectively, because of stringent computational constraints. We present here LIDT-DD, the first…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Quentin Kral , Philippe Thébault , Sébastien Charnoz

The reduction of magnetic forces on electromagnetic coils is an important consideration in the design of high-field devices such as the stellarator or tokamak. Unfortunately, these forces may be too time-consuming to evaluate by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Siena Hurwitz , Matt Landreman , Alan Kaptanoglu

Cycloidal propellers are known for their omnidirectional vectored thrust, enabling smooth transitions between hovering and forward flight, making them ideal for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and electric vertical take-off and landing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-01 Han Zhen Li , Yu Hu , Lai Zhang , Hong Bo Sun , Xu Chao Zhang

The poorly-ionized interior of the protoplanetary disk is the location where dust coagulation processes may be most efficient. However even here, planetesimal formation may be limited by the loss of solid material through radial drift, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Natalia Dzyurkevich , Mario Flock , Neal J. Turner , Hubert Klahr , Thomas Henning

In the standard picture of disc galaxy formation, baryons and dark matter receive the same tidal torques, and therefore approximately the same initial specific angular momentum. However, observations indicate that disc galaxies typically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Susan A. Kassin , Julien Devriendt , S. Michael Fall , Roelof S. de Jong , Brandon Allgood , Joel R. Primack

The present-day Universe is highly magnetized, even though the first magnetic seed fields were most probably extremely weak. To explain the growth of the magnetic field strength over many orders of magnitude fast amplification processes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jennifer Schober , Dominik Schleicher , Stefano Bovino , Ralf S. Klessen

Helical solenoids have been proposed as an option for a Helical Cooling Channel for muons in a proposed Muon Collider. Helical solenoids can provide the required three main field components: solenoidal, helical dipole, and a helical…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-02 M. L. Lopes , S. T. Krave , J. C. Tompkins , K. Yonehara , G. Flanagan , S. A. Kahn , K. Melconian

By postulating that the majority of the mass and angular momentum of a disc galaxy is confined to the disc with a lognormal surface density distribution, and that galactic discs are substantially, if not fully, self-gravitating, it may be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-02 John Herbert Marr