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This study employs gyrokinetic simulations to investigate ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence in realistic fusion plasmas featuring reverse magnetic shear. Negative magnetic shear is found to suppress the ITG instability due to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Dingkun Yang , Shengming Li , Yong Xiao , Zhihong Lin

We present local numerical models of accretion disk turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability with varying shear rate. The resulting turbulent stresses are compared with predictions of a closure model in which triple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-17 A. J. Liljeström , M. J. Korpi , P. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg , W. Lyra

The pressure strain correlation plays a critical role in the Reynolds stress transport modelling. Accurate modelling of the pressure strain correlation leads to proper prediction of turbulence stresses and subsequently the other terms of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-02 J P Panda , H V Warrior

The influence of rough surfaces on fluid flow is characterized by the downward shift in the logarithmic layer of velocity and temperature profiles, namely the velocity roughness function $\Delta U^+$ and the corresponding temperature…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-20 Simon Dalpke , Jiasheng Yang , Pourya Forooghi , Bettina Frohnapfel , Alexander Stroh

Faraday rotation of linearly polarized radio signals provides a very sensitive probe of fluctuations in the interstellar magnetic field and ionized gas density resulting from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We used a set of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Blakesley Burkhart , A. Lazarian , B. M. Gaensler

The dissipation of magnetized turbulence is fundamental to understanding energy transfer and heating in astrophysical systems. Collisionless interactions, such as resonant wave-particle process, are known to play a role in shaping turbulent…

Understanding how key physical parameters influence burning plasma behavior is critical for the reliable operation of ITER. In this work, we extend NeuralPlasmaODE, a multi-region, multi-timescale model based on neural ordinary differential…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zefang Liu , Weston M. Stacey

Recent nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations have shown that impurities can strongly modify the turbulent heat flux in stellarator plasmas. Here, the ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) dispersion relation in a plasma containing impurities is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Ivan Calvo , Felix I. Parra , Hanne Thienpondt , Jose Manuel Garcia-Regaña

Numerical simulations and experimental results have shown that current sheets formation in space plasmas can be associated with enhanced vorticity. Also, in simulations the generation of such structures is associated with strong plasma…

Magnetised plasma turbulence pervades the universe and is likely to play an important role in a variety of astrophysical settings. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest theoretical framework in which phenomenological models for…

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

Observational evidence in space and astrophysical plasmas with long collisional mean free path suggests that more massive charged particles may be preferentially heated. One possible mechanism for this is the turbulent cascade of energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-15 M. Barnes , P. Abiuso , W. Dorland

The atomic-to-molecular (HI-to-H$_2$) transition in photodissociation regions (PDRs) has been investigated over the last several decades through analytic and numerical modeling. However, classical PDR models typically assume uniform density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Shmuel Bialy

This work addresses linear transport in turbulent media, with emphasis on neutral particle (atoms, molecules) transport in magnetized fusion plasmas. A stochastic model for turbulent plasmas, based upon a multivariate Gamma distribution, is…

The dynamical evolution of hot optically thin plasmas in the ISM crucially depends on the heating and cooling processes. It is essential to realize that all physical processes that contribute operate on different time scales. In particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dieter Breitschwerdt

Context: Recent satellite measurements in the turbulent magnetosheath of Earth have given evidence of an unusual reconnection mechanism that is driven exclusively by electrons. This newly observed process was called electron-only…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Giuseppe Arrò , Francesco Califano , Giovanni Lapenta

Understanding plasma turbulence requires a synthesis of experiments, observations, theory, and simulations. In the case of kinetic plasmas such as the solar wind, the lack of collisions renders the fluid closures such as viscosity…

We present global 3D MHD simulations of disks of gas and solids, aiming at developing models that can be used to study various scenarios of planet formation and planet-disk interaction in turbulent accretion disks. A second goal is to show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Lyra , A. Johansen , H. Klahr , N. Piskunov

This study investigates the effect of the ion-to-electron temperature ratio ($T_i/T_e$) on microturbulence driven transport in Quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) plasmas in the DIII-D tokamak. Utilizing the Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code (GTC) and the…

Temperature probability distribution functions (PDFs) are a compact description of the thermal structure of multi-phase turbulent gas, and are directly linked to observables such as emission/absorption line ratios and phase mass fractions.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-16 Zirui Chen , S. Peng Oh

Data-driven turbulence modeling has been considered an effective method for improving the prediction accuracy of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. Related studies aimed to solve the discrepancy of traditional turbulence modeling by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-19 Yuhui Yin , Pu Yang , Yufei Zhang , Haixin Chen , Song Fu