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In turbulent flows, the Kolmogorov wavenumber characterizes the smallest scales at which viscous effects dominate. A mathematical analogue of this notion first introduced by Foias and Prodi [8] -- a determining wavenumber -- quantifies the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hassan Babaei , Mimi Dai

MHD Turbulence is common in many space physics and astrophysics environments. We first discuss the properties of incompressible MHD turbulence. A well-conductive fluid amplifies initial magnetic fields in a process called small-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrey Beresnyak , Alex Lazarian

Role of the dissipative invariants in isotropic homogeneous MHD turbulence has been studied using the distributed chaos approach and results of direct numerical simulations. Effects of weak imposed mean magnetic field and magnetic fields in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 A. Bershadskii

We study the chaotic properties of a turbulent conducting fluid using direct numerical simulation in the Eulerian frame. The maximal Lyapunov exponent is measured for simulations with varying Reynolds number and magnetic Prandtl number. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Richard Ho , Arjun Berera , Daniel Clark

Several recent advances in turbulent dynamo theory are reviewed. High resolution simulations of small-scale and large-scale dynamo action in periodic domains are compared with each other and contrasted with similar results at low magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Axel Brandenburg , Dmitry Sokoloff , Kandaswamy Subramanian

We use ensemble machine learning algorithms to study the evolution of magnetic fields in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence that is helically forced. We perform direct numerical simulations of helically forced turbulence using mean field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Farrukh Nauman , Joonas Nättilä

Magnetic helicity plays a tremendously important role when it is different from zero on average. Most notably, it leads to the phenomenon of an inverse cascade. Here, we consider decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence as well as some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Axel Brandenburg , Gustav Larsson

This manuscript has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids, see https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/accepted/d5074S28J6b11905012b7cb06505e8f2149dd5f20. This work investigates the mechanisms that underlie transitions to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-24 Christopher J. Camobreco , Alban Pothérat , Gregory J. Sheard

We investigate the critical transition from an inverse cascade of energy to a forward energy cascade in a two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic flow as the ratio of magnetic to mechanical forcing amplitude is varied. It is found that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-09 Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Alexandros Alexakis

The scaling of turbulent heat flux with respect to electrostatic potential is examined in the framework of a reduced ($4$D) kinetic system describing electrostatic turbulence in magnetized plasmas excited by the ion temperature gradient…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Vasil Bratanov , Swadesh Mahajan , David Hatch

The transition from deterministic to distributed chaos/turbulence at the increase of Rayleigh number (from $10^4$ to $10^8$) in Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection, controlled by generalized Birkhoff-Saffman invariant, has been studied using the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-01 A. Bershadskii

The inverse cascade of magnetic energy occurs when helicity or rotational instability exists in the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system. This well known phenomenon has been considered as a basis for the large scale magnetic field in universe.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Kiwan Park

This paper introduces an experimental apparatus, which drives turbulence electrically in a liquid metal pervaded by a high magnetic field. Unlike past magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) setups involving a shallow confinement, the experiment…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-03 Nathaniel T. Baker , Alban Pothérat , Laurent Davoust , François Debray , Rico Klein

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

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 eigenmode spectrum is a fundamental starting point for the analysis of plasma stability and the onset of turbulence, but the characterization of the spectrum even for the simplest plasma model, ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), is not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. L. Dewar , B. G. Kenny , C. Nuehrenberg , T. Tatsuno , B. F. McMillan

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a ubiquitous dynamical state of astrophysical plasmas and a primary agent in the redistribution, dissipation, and conversion of energy into particle populations. Yet turbulence is still most often…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Loukas Vlahos

Turbulence in the magnetized plasma is well understood to be the consequence of wave interactions. When the Hall effect is added to the minimum magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the MHD waves become dispersive and different nonlinear interactions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Erik C. Hansen , Prerana Sharma , Swadesh M. Mahajan

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

We present Direct Numerical Simulations of decaying Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number. The domain considered is bounded by periodic boundary conditions in the two directions perpendicular to the magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-19 Kacper Kornet , Alban Potherat