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Dynamos in astrophysical disks are usually explained in terms of the standard alpha-omega mean field dynamo model where the local helicity generates a radial field component from an azimuthal field. The subsequent shearing of the radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ethan T. Vishniac

Magnetorotational instability (MRI)-driven turbulence and dynamo phenomena are analyzed using direct statistical simulations. Our approach begins by developing a unified mean-field model that combines the traditionally decoupled problems of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Tushar Mondal , Pallavi Bhat

We introduce a new phase field model for binary mixtures of incompressible micropolar fluids, which are among the simplest categories of fluids exhibiting internal rotations. The model fulfils local and global dissipation inequalities so…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Kin Shing Chan , Baoli Hao , Kei Fong Lam , Björn Stinner

The origin of strong magnetic fields in the Universe can be explained by amplifying weak seed fields via turbulent motions on small spatial scales and subsequently transporting the magnetic energy to larger scales. This process is known as…

I consider the problem of weakly nonlinear stability of three-dimensional parity-invariant magnetohydrodynamic systems to perturbations, involving large scales. I assume that the MHD state, the stability of which I investigate, does not…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Zheligovsky

The mean-field theory of magnetized stellar convection gives rise to the two possibility of distinct instabilities: the large-scale dynamo instability, operating in the bulk of the convection zone, and a negative effective magnetic pressure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-03 Sarah Jabbari , Axel Brandenburg , Illa R. Losada , Nathan Kleeorin , Igor Rogachevskii

In order better to understand how dynamo systems saturate, we study the kinematic dynamo properties of velocity fields that arise from nonlinearly saturated dynamos. The technique is implemented by solving concurrently, in addition to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-09-13 Fausto Cattaneo , Steve M. Tobias

We investigate the Lagrangian mechanism of the kinematic ``fluctuation'' magnetic dynamo in turbulent plasma flow at small magnetic Prandtl numbers. The combined effect of turbulent advection and plasma resistivity is to carry infinitely…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gregory L. Eyink , Antonio F. Neto

We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of a reduced {\alpha}{\Omega}-dynamo model of magnetic field generation in spiral galaxies where fluctuation in the {\alpha}-effect results in a system with state-dependent stochastic perturbations.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Cónall Kelly

We introduce a mean field model for optimal holding of a representative agent of her peers as a natural expected scaling limit from the corresponding $N-$agent model. The induced mean field dynamics appear naturally in a form which is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Mao Fabrice Djete , Nizar Touzi

A class of simple kinetic systems is considered, described by the 1D Vlasov-Landau equation with Poisson or Boltzmann electrostatic response and an energy source. Assuming a stochastic electric field, a solvable model is constructed for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 T. Adkins , A. A. Schekochihin

We present a review of our recent work in extending the successful dynamical mean-field theory from the equilibrium case to nonequilibrium cases. In particular, we focus on the problem of turning on a spatially uniform, but possibly time…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-08-14 V. Turkowski , J. K. Freericks

The Lagrangian properties of the velocity field in a magnetized fluid are studied using three-dimensional simulations of a helical magnetohydrodynamic dynamo. We compute the attracting and repelling Lagrangian coherent structures, which are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Erico L. Rempel , Abraham C. -L. Chian , Axel Brandenburg

We present calculations of the stability of planar fronts in two mean field models of diffusion limited growth. The steady state solution for the front can exist for a continuous family of velocities, we show that the selected velocity is…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Douglas Ridgway , Herb Levine , Yuhai Tu

The scale separation approximation, which is in the base of the solar mean field dynamo models, can be hardly justified both by observations and theoretical applications to astrophysical dynamos.{ The general expression for the mean…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 V. V. Pipin

We investigate the dynamo problem in the limit of small magnetic Prandtl number ($\Pm$) using a shell model of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. The model is designed to satisfy conservation laws of total energy, cross helicity and magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodion Stepanov , Franck Plunian

We investigate response to an external magnetic field in the Hamiltonian mean-field model, which is a paradigmatic toy model of a ferromagnetic body and consists of plane rotators like the XY spins. Due to long-range interactions, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-16 Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi

The turbulent dynamo effect, which describes the generation of magnetic fields in astrophysical objects, is described by the dynamo equation. This, in the kinematic (linear) approximation gives an unbounded exponential growth of the long…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhik Basu

In this work we investigate the existence and uniqueness of Struwe-like solutions for a system of partial differential equations modeling the dynamics of magnetoviscoelastic fluids. The considered system couples a Navier-Stokes type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Francesco De Anna , Joshua Kortum , Anja Schlömerkemper

A constant homogeneous magnetic field is applied to a composite system made of two scalar particles with opposite charges. Motion is described by a pair of coupled Klein-Gordon equations that are written in closed form with help of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 Philippe Droz-Vincent