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Three-dimensional numerical simulations of decaying turbulence in a magnetized plasma are performed using a so-called FLR-Landau fluid model which incorporates linear Landau damping and finite Larmor radius (FLR) corrections. It is shown…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. Hunana , D. Laveder , T. Passot , P. L. Sulem , D. Borgogno

We study the intermittency and field-line structure of the MHD turbulence in plasmas with very large magnetic Prandtl numbers. In this regime, which is realized in the interstellar medium, some accretion disks, protogalaxies, galaxy-cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Schekochihin , J. Maron , S. Cowley , J. McWilliams

We present a quantitative estimate of the anisotropic power and scaling of magnetic field fluctuations in inertial range magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, using a novel wavelet technique applied to spacecraft measurements in the solar wind.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. S. Horbury , M. A. Forman , S. Oughton

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

Recent analytical works on strong magnetized plasma turbulence have hypothesized the existence of a range of scales where the tearing instability may govern the energy cascade. In this paper, we estimate the conditions under which such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Nuno F. Loureiro , Stanislav Boldyrev

Turbulence in an incompressible fluid with and without a magnetic field as well as moderately compressible MHD turbulence are compared. For the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models the probability distribution functions of the velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas Hall , G. Kowal , A. Lazarian , Jungyeon Cho

The solar wind and the interstellar medium are permeated by large-scale magnetic fields that render magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence anisotropic. In the weak-turbulence limit in which three-wave interactions dominate, analytical and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-06 C. S. Ng , A. Bhattacharjee

The exact law for fully developed homogeneous compressible magnetohydrodynamics (CMHD) turbulence is derived. For an isothermal plasma, without the assumption of isotropy, the exact law is expressed as a function of the plasma velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Nahuel Andrés , Fouad Sahraoui

Solar wind is probably the best laboratory to study turbulence in astrophysical plasmas. In addition to the presence of magnetic field, the differences with neutral fluid isotropic turbulence are: weakness of collisional dissipation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Olga Alexandrova , Christopher H. K. Chen , Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Timothy S. Horbury , Stuart D. Bale

We present a one-equation subgrid scale model that evolves the turbulence energy corresponding to unresolved velocity fluctuations in large eddy simulations. The model is derived in the context of the Germano consistent decomposition of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , W. Hillebrandt

Theoretical approaches to low-frequency magnetized turbulence in collisionless and weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas are reviewed. The proper starting point for an analytical description of these plasmas is kinetic theory, not fluid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , W. Dorland

Understanding the nature of compressible fluctuations in a broad range of turbulent plasmas, from the intracluster medium to the solar wind, has been an active field of research in the past decades. Theoretical frameworks for weakly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Riddhi Bandyopadhyay , James R. Beattie , Amitava Bhattacharjee

In this work, we systematically investigate the scale-dependent angular momentum flux by analysing high-resolution three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations in which the solar-like differential rotation is reproduced without using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 K. Mori , H. Hotta

Active turbulence is a paradigmatic and fascinating example of self-organized motion at large scales occurring in active matter. We employ massive hydrodynamic simulations of suspensions of resolved model microswimmers to tackle the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-18 Antonio Gascó , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Andrea Scagliarini

A higher-order multiscale analysis of spatial anisotropy in inertial range magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is presented using measurements from the STEREO spacecraft in fast ambient solar wind. We show for the first time that, when measuring…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 K. T. Osman , K. H. Kiyani , S. C. Chapman , B. Hnat

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 study scaling relations of compressible isothermal strongly magnetized turbulence using numerical simulations with resolution 512$^3$. We find a good correspondence of our results with the Fleck (1996) model of compressible hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Grzegorz Kowal , A. Lazarian

It is shown that statistical properties of developed hydrodynamic turbulence are characterized by an infinite set of independent anomalous exponents which describes the scaling behavior of hydrodynamic fields constructed from the second and…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Vladimir V. Lebedev , Victor S. L'vov

Electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) turbulence in two dimensions is studied via high-resolution numerical simulations with a normal diffusivity. The resulting energy spectra asymptotically approach a $k^{-5/2}$ law with increasing $R_B$,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-05-01 C. J. Wareing , R. Hollerbach

In this paper we investigate the dynamics of magnetic helicity in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent flows focusing at scales larger than the forcing scale. Our results show a nonlocal inverse cascade of magnetic helicity, which occurs…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-23 Moritz Linkmann , Vassilios Dallas