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Magnetic fields, compressibility and turbulence are important factors in many terrestrial and astrophysical processes. While energy dynamics, i.e. how energy is transferred within and between kinetic and magnetic reservoirs, has been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith , Wolfram Schmidt , Andrew Christlieb

We numerically study the diffusion and scattering of cosmic rays (CRs) together with their acceleration processes in the framework of the modern understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Based on the properties of compressible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 Nana Gao , Jianfu Zhang

According to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the encounter of two collisional magnetized plasmas at high velocity gives rise to shock waves. Investigations conducted so far have found that the same conclusion still holds in the case of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Antoine Bret , Asaf Pe'er , Lorenzo Sironi , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

We investigate the influence of coherent structures on particle acceleration in the strongly turbulent solar corona. By randomizing the Fourier phases of a pseudo-spectral simulation of isotropic MHD turbulence (Re $\sim 300$), and tracing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kaspar Arzner , Bernard Knaepen , Daniele Carati , Nicolas Denewet , Loukas Vlahos

In this study, we focus on the simulation of accretion processes in Magnetically Arrested Disks (MADs) and investigate the dynamics of plasma during flux eruption events. We employ general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 V. Mpisketzis , G. F. Paraschos , H. Ho-Yin Ng , A. Nathanail

Initial results from simulations of 4-fluid MHD turbulence in molecular clouds are presented. The species included in the simulations are ions, electrons, negatively charged dust grains and neutrals. The results indicate that, on length…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-02 Turlough P. Downes

The generation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and their instabilities are studied in galactic gaseous rotating plasmas with the effects of the magnetic field, the self gravity, the diffusion-convection of cosmic rays as well as the gas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Jyoti Turi , A. P. Misra

Shock waves constitute discontinuities in matter which are relevant in studying the plasma behaviour in astrophysical scenarios and in heavy-ion collision. They can produce conical emission in relativistic collisions and are also thought to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-03 Ritam Mallick , Stefan Schramm

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

We consider the linear axisymmetric stability of a differentially rotating collisionless plasma in the presence of a weak magnetic field; we restrict our analysis to wavelengths much larger than the proton Larmor radius. This is the kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eliot Quataert , William Dorland , Greg Hammett

The saturation level of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is investigated using three-dimensional MHD simulations. The shearing box approximation is adopted and the vertical component of gravity is ignored, so that the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takayoshi Sano , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Neal J. Turner , James M. Stone

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) couples the Navier--Stokes and Maxwell equations into a nonlinear system of partial differential equations governing stellar interiors, astrophysical jets, fusion plasmas, and space weather. Numerical advances,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 E. A. Huerta

Conventional snowplow/1-D models assume the existence of single completely ionized plasma sheet in the discharge chamber of pulsed plasma thrusters (PPTs). However, extensive experimental analysis and observations suggest the presence of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Kaartikey Misra

Recent calculations by Quataert et al. (2002) found that the growth rates of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a collisionless plasma can differ significantly from those calculated using MHD. This can be important in hot accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Prateek Sharma , Gregory W. Hammett , Eliot Quataert

In the paradigm of magnetic launching of astrophysical jets, instabilities in the MHD flow are a good candidate to convert the Poynting flux into the kinetic energy of the plasma. If the magnetised plasma fills the almost entire space, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-04 E. Sobacchi , Y. E. Lyubarsky

Three-dimensional direct numerical simulations (DNS) are implemented to investigate the energy cascade rate in compressible isothermal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Utilizing an exact law derived from the K\'arm\'an-Howarth…

We present the results of a numerical investigation of current-driven instability in magnetized jets. Utilizing the well-tested, relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code Athena, we construct an ensemble of local, co-moving plasma columns in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Sean M. O'Neill , Kris Beckwith , Mitchell C. Begelman

We present a reduced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mathematical model describing the dynamical behavior of highly conducting plasmas with frozen-in magnetic fields, constrained by the assumption that, there exists a frame of reference, where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Igor V Sokolov , Lulu Zhao , Tamas I Gombosi

We carry out a comprehensive analysis of the behavior of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in viscous, resistive plasmas. We find exact, non-linear solutions of the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations describing the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin E. Pessah , Chi-kwan Chan

With the support of hybrid-kinetic simulations and analytic theory, we describe the nonlinear behaviour of long-wavelength non-propagating (NP) modes and fast magnetosonic waves in high-$\beta$ collisionless plasmas, with particular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Stephen Majeski , Matthew W. Kunz , Jonathan Squire