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To elucidate the influence of shear flow on the generation of magnetic field (the dynamo effect), we study the kinematic limit where the magnetic field does not backreact on the velocity field. By non-perturbatively incorporating the effect…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-09 Nicolas Leprovost , Eun-Jin Kim

Magnetic reconnection requires, at least locally, a non-ideal plasma response. In collisionless space and astrophysical plasmas, turbulence could permit this instead of the too rare binary collisions. We investigated the influence of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Fabien Widmer , Jörg Büchner , Nobumitsu Yokoi

Aims. The alpha- and gamma-effects, which are responsible for the generation and turbulent pumping of large scale magnetic fields, respectively, due to passive advection by convection are determined in the rapid rotation regime…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Korpi , M. Ossendrijver , M. Stix

Plasma-mediated interaction between astrophysical objects can play an important role and produce electromagnetic radiation in various binary systems, ranging from planet-moon and star-planet systems to binary compact objects. We perform 3D…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Nicholas Corso , Dong Lai

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

The heating, acceleration, and pitch-angle scattering of charged particles by MHD turbulence are important in a wide range of astrophysical environments, including the solar wind, accreting black holes, and galaxy clusters. We simulate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-26 Jacob W. Lynn , Ian J. Parrish , Eliot Quataert , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

The Earth's magnetosphere represents a natural plasma laboratory that allows us to study the behavior of particle distribution functions in the absence of Coulomb collisions, typically described by the Kappa distributions. We have…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Adetayo V. Eyelade , Marina Stepanova , Cristobal M. Espinoza , Pablo S. Moya

Small magnetic fluctuations ($B_1/B_0 \sim 10^{-4}$) are intrinsically present in a magnetic confinement plasma due to turbulent currents. While the perpendicular transport of particles and heat is typically dominated by fluctuations of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Kaiyu Zhang , Wladimir Zholobenko , Andreas Stegmeir , Konrad Eder , Frank Jenko

Understanding plasma self-magnetization is one of the fundamental challenges in both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. Self-magnetization can modify the plasma transport properties, altering the dynamical evolution of plasmas. Multiple…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 K. V. Lezhnin , S. R. Totorica , J. Griff-McMahon , M. Medvedev , H. Landsberger , A. Diallo , W. Fox

We explain the (non)helical dynamo process using a field-structure model based on magnetic induction equation in an intuitive way. We show how nonhelical kinetic energy converts into magnetic energy and cascades toward smaller eddies in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Kiwan Park

We investigate the linear tearing instability in weakly collisional plasmas using a non-ideal gyrotropic-MHD framework, uncovering a previously unknown scaling relation for the instability growth rate in high-$\beta$ environments. Even…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Gabriel L. Ferreira-Santos , Grzegorz Kowal , Diego A. Falceta-Gonçalves

The turbulent magnetic diffusivity tensor is determined in the presence of rotation or shear. The question is addressed whether dynamo action from the shear-current effect can explain large-scale magnetic field generation found in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 A. Brandenburg , K. -H. Rädler , M. Rheinhardt , P. J. Käpylä

The author presents a model for variability of the flux and polarization of blazars in which turbulent plasma flowing at a relativistic speed down a jet crosses a standing conical shock. The shock compresses the plasma and accelerates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Alan P. Marscher

It is well known that magnetic fields constrain motions of charged particles, impeding the diffusion of charged particles perpendicular to magnetic field direction. This modification of transport processes is of vital importance for a wide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 A. Lazarian

We present a study of spectral laws for helical turbulence in the presence of solid body rotation up to Reynolds numbers Re~1*10^5 and down to Rossby numbers Ro~3*10^-3. The forcing function is a fully helical flow that can also be viewed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-12-18 J. Baerenzung , D. Rosenberg , P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

The problem of determining the effective conductivity tensor of a magnetoactive turbulent plasma is considered in the approximation of isolated particles. Additional gyrotropicterms are shown to appear in the conductivity tensor in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Otto G. Chkhetiani

We present a 2.5D MHD simulation of a magnetic flux rope (FR) propagating in the heliosphere and investigate the cause of the observed sharp plasma beta transition. Specifically, we consider a strong internal magnetic field and an explosive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Neel P. Savani , A. Vourlidas , D. Shiota , M. G. Linton , K. Kusano , N. Lugaz , A. P. Rouillard

In the full-orbit particle simulations of energetic particle transport in plasmas, the plasma turbulence is typically described as a homogeneous superposition of linear Fourier modes. The turbulence evolution is, however, typically a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Timo Laitinen , Silvia Dalla , James Kelly

This article is focused on the dynamics of a rotating electrically conducting fluid in a turbulent state. As inside the Earth's core or in various industrial processes, a flow is altered by the presence of both background rotation and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-01 Benjamin F. N. Favier , Fabien S. Godeferd , Claude Cambon

The efficiency of particle acceleration at shock waves in relativistic, magnetized astrophysical outflows is a debated topic with far-reaching implications. Here, for the first time, we study the impact of turbulence in the pre-shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Virginia Bresci , Martin Lemoine , Laurent Gremillet