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In the past years we have experienced an increasing interest in understanding of the physical properties of collisionless plasmas, mostly because of the large number of astrophysical environments, e.g. the intracluster medium (ICM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Grzegorz Kowal , D. A. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Lazarian

Autoencoders and generative neural network models have recently gained popularity in fluid mechanics due to their spontaneity and low processing time instead of high fidelity CFD simulations. Auto encoders are used as model order reduction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-04 Kanishk , Tanishk Nandal , Prince Tyagi , Raj Kumar Singh

A fully-resolved direct-numerical-simulation (DNS) approach for investigating flexible bodies forced by a turbulent incoming flow is designed to study the flapping motion of a flexible flag at moderate Reynolds number. The incoming…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-25 Stefano Olivieri , Francesco Viola , Andrea Mazzino , Marco E. Rosti

We study the long term evolution of magnetic fields generated by a collisionless relativistic $e^+e^-$ shock which is initially unmagnetized. Our 2D particle-in-cell numerical simulations show that downstream of such a Weibel-mediated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Chang , A. Spitkovsky , J. Arons

The present work proposes an inflow turbulence generation strategy using deep learning methods. This is achieved with the help of an autoencoder architecture with two different types of operational layers in the latent-space: a fully…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-16 Aakash Vijay Patil

Astrophysical fluids, including interstellar and interplanetary medium, are magnetized and turbulent. Their appearance, evolution, and overall properties are determined by the magnetic turbulence that stirs it. We argue that examining…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Lazarian , A. Beresnyak , H. Yan , M. Opher , Y. Liu

Fluid thermodynamics underpins atmospheric dynamics, climate science, industrial applications, and energy systems. However, direct numerical simulations (DNS) of such systems can be computationally prohibitive. To address this, we present a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-11 Luca Menicali , Andrew Grace , David H. Richter , Stefano Castruccio

A new version of GBS (Ricci et al. Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 54, 124047, 2012; Halpern et al. J. Comput. Phys. 315, 388-408, 2016; Paruta et al. Phys. Plasmas 25, 112301, 2018) is described. GBS is a three-dimensional, flux-driven,…

The relationship between magnetic reconnection and plasma turbulence is investigated using multipoint in-situ measurements from the Cluster spacecraft within a high-speed reconnection jet in the terrestrial magnetotail. We show explicitly…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 K. T. Osman , K. H. Kiyani , W. H. Matthaeus , B. Hnat , S. C. Chapman , Yu. V. Khotyaintsev

Afterglows of gamma-ray bursts are believed to require magnetic fields much stronger than that of the compressed pre-shock medium. As an alternative to microscopic plasma instabilities, we propose amplification of the field by macroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lorenzo Sironi , Jeremy Goodman

The formation and evolution of nonlinear and turbulent dynamical structures in two-dimensional complex plasmas and fluids is explored by means of generalised (drift) fluid simulations. Recent numerical results on turbulence in dusty…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 Alexander Kendl

Matter entanglement is a common chaotic structure in both quantum and classical systems. Turbulence can be pictured as a tangle of vortex filaments in superfluids and viscous vortices in classical fluids. However, it is hard to explain how…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-21 Weiyu Shen , Jie Yao , Yue Yang

Our understanding of the process through which magnetic fields reached their observed strengths in present-day galaxies remains incomplete. One of the advocated solutions is a turbulent dynamo mechanism that rapidly amplifies weak magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Debora Sijacki , Mark L. A. Richardson , Harley Katz

Magnetic reconnection is a process of magnetic field topology change, which is one of the most fundamental processes in magnetized plasmas. In most astrophysical environments the Reynolds numbers are large and therefore the transition to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Alex Lazarian , Gregory L. Eyink , Ethan T. Vishniac , Grzegorz Kowal

The properties of the boundary plasma in a tokamak are now recognized to play a key role in determining the achievable fusion power and the lifetimes of plasma-facing components. Accurate quantitative modeling and improved qualitative…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-25 E. L. Shi

Turbulence simulations play a key role in advancing the general understanding of the physical properties turbulence and in interpreting astrophysical observations of turbulent plasmas. For the sake of simplicity, however, turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

Analysis of compressible turbulent flows is essential for applications related to propulsion, energy generation, and the environment. Here, we present BLASTNet 2.0, a 2.2 TB network-of-datasets containing 744 full-domain samples from 34…

Turbulence in a conducting plasma can amplify seed magnetic fields in what is known as the turbulent, or small-scale, dynamo. The associated growth rate and emergent magnetic-field geometry depend sensitively on the material properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-17 Alisa K. Galishnikova , Matthew W. Kunz , Alexander A. Schekochihin

Context. Three-dimensional (3D) reconnection is an important mechanism for efficiently releasing energy during astrophysical eruptive events, which is difficult to be quantitatively analyzed especially within turbulent plasmas. Aims. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Yulei Wang , Xin Cheng , Yang Guo , Jinhan Guo , Mingde Ding

Simulations are performed to investigate turbulent properties of nonlinearly interacting two-dimensional (2D) magnetic electron drift vortex (MEDV) modes in a nonuniform unmagnetized plasma. The relevant nonlinear equations governing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , P. K. Shukla