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Composed of shocked solar wind, the Earth's magnetosheath serves as a natural laboratory to study the transition of turbulence from low Alfv{\'e}n Mach number, $M_\mathrm{A}$, to high $M_\mathrm{A}$. The simultaneous observations of…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Hui Li , Wence Jiang , Chi Wang , Daniel Verscharen , Chen Zeng , C. T. Russell , B. Giles , J. L. Burch

Local magnetic reversals are an inseparable part of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence whose collective outcome on an arbitrary scale in the inertial range may lead to a global stochastic reconnection event with a rate independent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Amir Jafari , Ethan Vishniac , Siyao Xu

Relative magnetic helicity is a gauge invariant quantity suitable for the study of the magnetic helicity content of heliospheric plasmas. Relative magnetic helicity can be decomposed uniquely into two gauge invariant quantities, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Luis Linan , Étienne Pariat , Kostas Moraitis , Gherardo Valori , James E. Leake

We present 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical simulations of the evolution of self--gravitating and weakly magnetized disks with an adiabatic equation of state. Such disks are subject to the development of both the magnetorotational and…

Incompressible MHD turbulence is investigated under the presence of a uniform magnetic field $\bb0$. Such a situation is described in the correlation space by a divergence relation which expresses the statistical conservation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sebastien Galtier

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic buoyancy instability in rotating and non-rotating gas layers using numerical solutions of non-ideal, isothermal MHD equations. The unstable magnetic field is either imposed through the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Yasin Qazi , Anvar Shukurov , Devika Tharakkal , Frederick A. Gent

Two non-local asymptotic invariants of magnetic fields for the ideal magnetohydrodynamics are introduced. The velocity of variation of the invariants for a non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics with a small magnetic dissipation is estimated. By…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Petr M. Akhmet'ev

We provide a theoretical description of synchrotron fluctuations arising from magnetic turbulence. We derive an expression that relates the correlation of synchrotron fluctuations for an arbitrary index of relativistic electrons with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Alex Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

In systems where the standard $\alpha$ effect is inoperative, one often explains the existence of mean magnetic fields by invoking the `incoherent $\alpha$ effect', which appeals to fluctuations of the mean kinetic helicity at a mesoscale.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-24 Kishore Gopalakrishnan , Nishant Singh

Magnetic helicity has the remarkable property of being a conserved quantity of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Therefore, it could be used as an effective tracer of the magnetic field evolution of magnetized plasmas. Theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 E. Pariat , G. Valori , P. Démoulin , K. Dalmasse

We study the spatio-temporal behavior of the Els\"asser variables describing magnetic and velocity field fluctuations, using direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. We consider cases with relatively…

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

Magnetic turbulence is anisotropic as the directions of motion are constrained by the magnetic field. Such anisotropy can be observed in velocity centroids obtained from spectroscopic observations. We use magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-13 D. Hernández-Padilla , A. Esquivel , A. Lazarian , D. Pogosyan , D. Kandel , J. Cho

The problem of anomalous scaling in magnetohydrodynamics turbulence is considered within the framework of the kinematic approximation, in the presence of a large-scale background magnetic field. The velocity field is Gaussian,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. V. Antonov , A. Lanotte , A. Mazzino

We analyze a merged Parker Solar Probe ($PSP$) and Solar Orbiter ($SO$) dataset covering heliocentric distances $13 \ R_{\odot} \lesssim R \lesssim 220$ $R_{\odot}$ to investigate the radial evolution of power and spectral-index anisotropy…

We analyse the anisotropy of homogeneous turbulence in an electrically conducting fluid submitted to a uniform magnetic field, for low magnetic Reynolds number, in the quasi- static approximation. We interpret disagreeing previous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-23 B. F. N. Favier , F. S. Godeferd , C. Cambon , A. Delache , W. J. T. Bos

Magnetic helicity effects are discussed in laboratory and astrophysical settings. First, dynamo action in Taylor-Green flows is discussed for different boundary conditions. However, because of the lack of scale separation with respect to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A Brandenburg , P J Käpylä

The energy of the stochastic magnetic field is bounded from below by a topological quantity expressing the degree of linkage of the field lines. When the bound is saturated one can assume that the storage of a certain magnetic energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Spineanu , M. Vlad

In numerical studies of turbulence, hyperviscosity is often used as a tool to extend the inertial subrange and to reduce the dissipative subrange. By analogy, hyperdiffusivity (or hyperresistivity) is sometimes used in magnetohydrodynamics.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Axel Brandenburg , Graeme R. Sarson

We recently proposed a method to calculate the relative magnetic helicity in a finite volume for a given magnetic field which however required the flux to be balanced separately on all the sides of the considered volume. In order to allow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Shangbin Yang , Joerg Buechner , Jan Skala , Hongqi Zhang