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We use the 3D fully kinetic simulation to study different turbulence modes and turbulence anisotropy of relativistic turbulence in magnetically dominated collisionless plasmas. We extend the method developed by Cho & Lazarian (2002) for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Samuel T. Sebastian , Siyao Xu , Yue Hu , Luca Comisso , Saikat Das , Joonas Nättilä

In the quest to solve the long-standing coronal heating problem, it has been suggested half a century ago that coronal loops could be heated by waves. Despite the accumulating observational evidence of the possible importance of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Mijie Shi , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Mingzhe Guo , Konstantinos Karampelas , Bo Li , Patrick Antolin

The conservation of wave action in moving plasmas has been well-known for over half a century. However, wave action is not conserved when multiple wave modes propagate and coexist close to degeneration condition (Sound speed equals Alfv\'en…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Zesen Huang , Chen Shi , Marco Velli , Nikos Sioulas

Plasma turbulence is a ubiquitous dynamical process that transfers energy across many spatial and temporal scales and affects energetic particle transport. Recent advances in the understanding of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Ka Ho Yuen , Mijie Shi

In the approximation of linear dissipative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) it can be shown that driven MHD waves in magnetic plasmas with high Reynolds number exhibit a near resonant behaviour if the frequency of the wave becomes equal to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-18 C. T. M. Clack , I. Ballai , M. S. Ruderman

The nonlinear theory of driven magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) waves in strongly anisotropic and dispersive plasmas, developed for slow resonance by Clack and Ballai [Phys. Plasmas, 15, 2310 (2008)] and Alfv\'en resonance by Clack \emph{et al.}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 C. Clack , I. Ballai

One view of the solar-wind turbulence is that the observed highly anisotropic fluctuations at spatial scales near the proton inertial length $d_p$ may be considered as Kinetic Alfv\'en waves (KAWs). In the present paper, we show how…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 C. L. Vasconez , F. Pucci , F. Valentini , S. Servidio , W. H. Matthaeus , F. Malara

We report turbulence effects on magnetic reconnection in relativistic plasmas using 3-dimensional relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulations. We found reconnection rate became independent of the plasma resistivity due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 Makoto Takamoto , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Alexandre Lazarian

We analyze 3D numerical simulations of driven incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a periodic box threaded by a moderately strong external magnetic field. We sum over nonlinear interactions within Fourier wavebands and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , Alex Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

In the context of coronal heating, among the zoo of MHD waves that exist in the solar atmosphere, Alfven waves receive special attention. Indeed, these waves constitute an attractive heating agent due to their ability to carry over the many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 P. Antolin , K. Shibata

Alfv\'enic-type turbulence in strongly magnetized, low-beta pair plasmas is investigated. A coupled set of equations for the evolution of the magnetic and flow potentials are derived, covering both fluid and kinetic scales. In the fluid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 N. F. Loureiro , S. Boldyrev

Recent progress in understanding the physics of magnetic reconnection is conveniently summarized in terms of a phase diagram which organizes the essential dynamics for a wide variety of applications in heliophysics, laboratory and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hantao Ji , William Daughton

We propose a novel one-dimensional model that includes both shock and turbulence heating and qualify how these processes contribute to heating the corona and driving the solar wind. Compressible MHD simulations allow us to automatically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Munehito Shoda , Takaaki Yokoyama , Takeru K. Suzuki

The set of equations for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in a shear flow is consecutively derived. The proposed scenario involves the presence of a self-sustained turbulence and magnetic field. In the framework of Langevin--Burgers approach…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-27 T. M. Mishonov , Y. G. Maneva , Z. D. Dimitrov , T. S. Hristov

The phenomenon of nonlinear wave mixing is investigated in a Yukawa one-component plasma using two-dimensional classical Langevin molecular dynamics simulations. The wave spectrum indicates that nonlinear interactions between the excited…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Ajaz Mir , Farida Batool , Sanat Tiwari , Abhijit Sen

Recent advances in understanding of the basic properties of compressible Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for revisions of some of the generally accepted concepts. First, MHD turbulence is not so messy as it is usually believed. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Lazarian , J. Cho

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a cross-field process relevant to many systems. A prerequisite for understanding these systems is to constrain the role of MHD turbulence, and in particular the energy exchange between kinetic and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-10 R. Skalidis , K. Tassis , V. Pavlidou

Within the context of a viscoresistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model with anisotropic heat transport and cross-field mass diffusion, we introduce novel three-term representations for the magnetic field (background vacuum field, field line…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Nikita Nikulsin , Matthias Hoelzl , Alessandro Zocco , Karl Lackner , Sibylle Günter

In this work we used Particle-In-Cell simulations to study the interaction of circularly polarised Alfv\'en waves with one dimensional plasma density inhomogeneities transverse to the uniform magnetic field (phase mixing) in collisionless…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tsiklauri , Jun-Ichi Sakai , Shinji Saito

We perform magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the propagation of Alfven wave in magnetic chromosphere. We use the 1.5-dimensional expanding flux tube geometry setting and transverse perturbation at the bottom to generate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-13 Yikang Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama