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Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is of key importance in many high-energy astrophysical systems, where MHD instabilities can amplify local magnetic field over very short time scales. Specifically, the magnetorotational instability (MRI)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-30 Philipp Mösta , Christian D. Ott , David Radice , Luke F. Roberts , Erik Schnetter , Roland Haas

We consider the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) of a shallow fluid layer on a rapidly rotating planet or star. The presence of a background toroidal magnetic field is assumed, and the "shallow water" beta-plane approximation is used. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alexander M. Balk

Dynamo action owing to helically forced turbulence and large-scale shear is studied using direct numerical simulations. The resulting magnetic field displays propagating wave-like behavior. This behavior can be modelled in terms of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg

I present a review of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a strongly magnetised plasma. The approach is phenomenological even where a more rigorous theory is available, so that a reader armed with paper, pencil and some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Sridhar

We conduct 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of decaying turbulence in the solar wind context. To account for the spherical expansion of the solar wind, we implement the expanding box model. The initial turbulence comprises…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Chen Shi , Nikos Sioulas , Zesen Huang , Marco Velli , Anna Tenerani , Victor Réville

The work extends the computational model EULAG-MHD to include Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD)---important to explore physical systems undergoing fast magnetic reconnection at the order of the ion inertial length scale. Examples include…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Kamlesh Bora , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

Roles of turbulence in the context of magnetic reconnection are investigated with special emphasis on the mutual interaction between flow (large-scale inhomogeneous structure) and turbulence. In order to evaluate the effective transport due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nobumitsu Yokoi , Masahiro Hoshino

It has been proposed recently by Loureiro & Boldyrev [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 245101 (2017)] and Mallet et al. [Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 468, 4862 (2017)] that strongly anisotropic current sheets formed in the inertial range of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Justin Walker , Stanislav Boldyrev , Nuno Loureiro

It has been recognized that magnetic reconnection process is of great importance in high-energy astrophysics. We develop a new two-dimensional relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamic (R$^2$MHD) code, and carry out numerical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Naoyuki Watanabe , Takaaki Yokoyama

We investigate the scaling behavior of longitudinal and transverse structure functions in homogeneous and isotropic magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence by means of an exact hierarchy of structure function equations as well as by direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-03 J. Friedrich , H. Homann , T. Schäfer , R. Grauer

A three-dimensional numerical computation of magnetohydrodynamic dynamo behavior is described. The dynamo is mechanically forced with a driving term of the Taylor-Green type. The magnetic field development is followed from negligibly small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. D. Mininni , Y. Ponty , D. C. Montgomery , J. -F. Pinton , H. Politano , A. Pouquet

In the single fluid, nonrelativistic, ideal-Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma description magnetic field lines play a fundamental role by defining dynamically preserved "magnetic connections" between plasma elements. Here we show how the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 F. Pegoraro

Magnetised turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical systems, where it notoriously spans a broad range of spatial scales. Phenomenological theories of MHD turbulence describe the self-similar dynamics of turbulent fluctuations in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Joanne Mason , Jean Carlos Perez , Fausto Cattaneo , Stanislav Boldyrev

Motivated by some models arising in quantum plasma dynamics, in this paper we study the Maxwell-Schr\"odinger system with a power-type nonlinearity. We show the local well-posedness in $H^2(\mathbb{R}^3)\times H^{3/2}(\mathbb{R}^3)$ and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Paolo Antonelli , Michele D'Amico , Pierangelo Marcati

We study the magnetic properties of the 3d Hubbard model at half-filling in the TPSC formalism, previously developed for the 2d model. We focus on the N\'eel transition approached from the disordered side and on the paramagnetic phase. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. -M. Dare , G. Albinet

Magnetic reconnection is a process that changes magnetic field topology in highly conducting fluids. Traditionally, magnetic reconnection was associated mostly with solar flares. In reality, the process must be ubiquitous as astrophysical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A Lazarian , G. Eyink , E. Vishniac , G. Kowal

We present a new analysis of the anisotropic spectral energy distribution in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence permeated by a strong mean magnetic field. The turbulent flow is generated by high-resolution pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roland Grappin , Wolf-Christian Müller

Magnetic reconnection plays a critical role in many astrophysical processes where high energy emission is observed, e.g. particle acceleration, relativistic accretion powered outflows, pulsar winds and probably in dissipation of Poynting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-24 G. C. Murphy , Rachid Ouyed , Guy Pelletier

Turbulence is the most common state of astrophysical flows. In typical astrophysical fluids, turbulence is accompanied by strong magnetic fields, which has a large impact on the dynamics of the turbulent cascade. Recently, there has been a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lazarian , Jungyeon Cho , Huirong Yan