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The stability of toroidal magnetic fields in rotating radiative stellar zones is studied for realistic values of both the Prandtl numbers. The two considered models for the magnetic geometry represent fields with odd and even symmetry with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Ruediger , L. L. Kitchatinov

Small-scale fluctuating magnetic fields of order $n$G are observed in supernova shocks and galaxy clusters, where its amplification is likely caused by the Biermann battery mechanism. However, these fields cannot be amplified further…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Justin Kin Jun Hew , Christoph Federrath

Evolution of stochastically homogeneous magnetic field advected by incompressible turbulent flow with large magnetic Prandtl numbers is considered at the scales less than Kolmogorov viscous scale. It is shown that, despite unlimited growth…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-26 K. P. Zybin , A. S. Il'yn , A. V. Kopyev , V. A. Sirota

One of the most important predictions in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is that in the presence of a uniform magnetic field $\textbf{b}_{0}$ a transition from weak to strong wave turbulence should occur when going from large to small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 Romain Meyrand , Sebastien Galtier , Khurom H. Kiyani

Longitudinal and transverse behavior of magnetic field of relativistic nonlinear three-dimensional plasma wave is investigated. It is shown that the magnetic field of the wave is different from zero and performs higher frequency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. G. Khachatryan

The components of the total stress tensor (Reynolds stress plus Maxwell stress) are computed within the quasilinear approximation for a driven turbulence influenced by a large-scale magnetic background field. The conducting fluid has an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Ruediger , L. L. Kitchatinov , M. Schultz

During common envelope evolution, an initially weak magnetic field may undergo amplification by interacting with spiral density waves and turbulence generated in the stellar envelope by the inspiralling companion. Using 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Damien Gagnier , Ondrej Pejcha

Elastic turbulence is the chaotic fluid motion resulting from elastic instabilities due to the addition of polymers in small concentrations at very small Reynolds ($\mbox{Re}$) numbers. Our direct numerical simulations show that elastic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-24 Rahul K. Singh , Prasad Perlekar , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Marco E. Rosti

We study the dynamical regime of wave turbulence of a vibrated thin elastic plate based on experimental and numerical observations. We focus our study to the strongly non linear regime described in a previous letter by N. Yokoyama & M.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Benjamin Miquel , Alexandros Alexakis , Christophe Josserand , Nicolas Mordant

In continuation of previous work, numerical results are presented, concerning relativistically counter-streaming plasmas. Here, the relativistic mixed mode instability evolves through, and beyond, the linear saturation -- well into the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacob Trier Frederiksen , Mark Eric Dieckmann

Imposing a magnetic field on a turbulent flow of electrically conducting fluid incurs the Joule effect. A current paradigm is that the corresponding dissipation increases with the intensity of the magnetic field, and as a result turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-05 Alban Pothérat , Rico Klein

We propose a phenomenological theory of strong incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the presence of a strong large-scale external magnetic field. We argue that in the inertial range of scales, magnetic-field and velocity-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislav Boldyrev

When magnetohydrodynamic turbulence evolves in the presence of a large-scale mean magnetic field, an anisotropy develops relative to that preferred direction. The well-known tendency is to develop stronger gradients perpendicular to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Rohit Chhiber , William H. Matthaeus , Sean Oughton , Tulasi N. Parashar

Nonlinear evolution of magnetic reconnection is investigated by means of magnetohydrodynamic simulations including uniform resistivity, uniform viscosity, and anisotropic thermal conduction. When viscosity exceeds resistivity (the magnetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Takashi Minoshima , Takahiro Miyoshi , Shinsuke Imada

This paper is a detailed report on a programme of simulations used to settle a long-standing issue in the dynamo theory and demonstrate that the fluctuation dynamo exists in the limit of large magnetic Reynolds number Rm>>1 and small…

The interstellar medium (ISM) of our Galaxy is magnetized, compressible and turbulent, influencing many key ISM properties, like star formation, cosmic ray transport, and metal and phase mixing. Yet, basic statistics describing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-15 James R. Beattie , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen , Salvatore Cielo , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Magnetic field generation in three-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of an electrically conducting fluid is studied numerically by fixing the Prandtl number at $P=0.3$ and varying the Rayleigh number (Ra) as a control parameter. A…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 R. Chertovskih , E. L. Rempel , E. V. Chimanski

We show that in decaying hydromagnetic turbulence with initial kinetic helicity, a weak magnetic field eventually becomes fully helical. The sign of magnetic helicity is opposite to that of the kinetic helicity - regardless of whether or…

The mechanisms that generate "seed" magnetic fields in our Universe and that amplify them throughout cosmic time remain poorly understood. By means of fully-kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of turbulent, initially unmagnetized plasmas,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 L. Sironi , L. Comisso , R. Golant

The evolution and viscous damping of cosmic magnetic fields in the early universe, is analysed. Using the fact that the fluid, electromagnetic, and shear viscous energy-momentum tensors are all conformally invariant, the evolution is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 Kandaswamy Subramanian , John D. Barrow