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We report numerical investigations of wave turbulence in a vibrating plate. The possibility to implement advanced measurement techniques and long time numerical simulations makes this system extremely valuable for wave turbulence studies.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-25 Nicolas Mordant , Benjamin Miquel

In the framework of compressional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), we numerically studied the commonly accepted presumption that the Alfv\'enic turbulence is generated by the collisions between counter-propagating Alfv\'en waves (AWs). In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 S. V. Shestov , Y. M. Voitenko , A. N. Zhukov

We study the formation and evolution of a turbulent spectrum of Alfv\'en waves driven by reflection off the solar wind density gradients, starting from the coronal base up to 17 solar radii, well beyond the Alfv\'enic critical point. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 A. Verdini , M. Velli , E. Buchlin

This present study deals with the dissipative instability that appears in a compressible partially ionised plasma slab embedded in a uniform magnetic field, modelling the state of the plasma in solar prominences. In the partially ionised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 J. F. Mather , I. Ballai , R. Erdelyi

We demonstrate that in highly magnetized pair plasmas, nonlinear Alfven waves with wave-number $k \leq k_0 = \omega_p^2 /(\delta \omega_B)$ ($\delta =( \delta B)/B_0$ are relative fluctuations of the magnetic field) experience powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Maxim Lyutikov

The effects of both density stratification and magnetic field expansion on torsional Alfven waves in magnetic flux tubes are studied. The frequencies, the period ratio P1/P2 of the fundamental and its first-overtone, and eigenfunctions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 K. Karami , K. Bahari

It has long been suggested that shocks might play an important role in altering the form of the interstellar medium (ISM). Shocks enhance gas density and sufficiently dense regions may become self gravitating. Potential star forming clouds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. V. Anathpindika

We study the stability of large amplitude, circularly polarized Alfv\'en waves in an anisotropic plasma described by the double-adiabatic/CGL closure, and in particular the effect of a background thermal pressure anisotropy on the…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Anna Tenerani , Marco Velli , Petr Hellinger

The turbulence of capillary waves on the surface of a ferrofluid with a high permeability in a horizontal magnetic field is considered in the framework of a one-dimensional weakly nonlinear model. In the limit of a strong magnetic field,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-21 Evgeny A. Kochurin

We present a parameter study of simulations of fragmentation regulated by gravity, magnetic fields, ambipolar diffusion, and nonlinear flows. The thin-sheet approximation is employed with periodic lateral boundary conditions, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-20 Shantanu Basu , Glenn E. Ciolek , Wolf Dapp , James Wurster

A two-field Hamiltonian gyrofluid model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves retaining ion finite Larmor radius corrections, parallel magnetic field fluctuations and electron inertia, is used to study turbulent cascades from the MHD to the sub-ion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem

We investigate the steepening of the magnetic fluctuation power law spectra observed in the inner solar wind for frequencies higher than 0.5 Hz. This high frequency part of the spectrum may be attributed to dispersive nonlinear processes.…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Galtier

Standard perturbative calculations of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) have neglected nonperturbative effects in the large-amplitude regime. We develop a hybrid numerical framework to signify nonperturbative effects on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Zhuan Ning , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Xiang-Xi Zeng , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang

The propagation and non-linear interactions of magnetohydrodynamic waves are considered in the force-free limit, where the inertia of the conducting matter which enforces the MHD condition E.B = 0 can be neglected in comparison with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Parker Troischt , Christopher Thompson

We model strong forward shocks in young supernova remnants with efficient particle acceleration where a nonresonant instability driven by the cosmic ray current amplifies magnetic turbulence in the shock precursor. Particle injection,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey E. Vladimirov , Andrei M. Bykov , Donald C. Ellison

In this paper, the stability of a dynamically condensing radiative gas layer is investigated by linear analysis. Our own time-dependent, self-similar solutions describing a dynamical condensing radiative gas layer are used as an unperturbed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Kazunari Iwasaki , Toru Tsuribe

We perform numerical simulations of impulsively generated magnetic swirls in an isolated flux tube which is rooted in the solar photosphere. These swirls are triggered by an initial pulse in a horizontal component of the velocity. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 K. Murawski , P. Kayshap , A. K. Srivastava , D. J. Pascoe , P. Jelínek , B. Kuźma , V. Fedun

Ambipolar diffusion (AD) is believed to be a crucial process for redistributing magnetic flux in the dense molecular gas that occurs in regions of star formation. We carry out numerical simulations of this process in regions of low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pak Shing Li , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein

We compare the statistical properties of J=1-0 13CO spectra observed in the Perseus Molecular Cloud with synthetic J=1-0 13CO spectra, computed solving the non-LTE radiative transfer problem for a model cloud obtained as solutions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paolo Padoan , John Bally , Youssef Billawala , Mika Juvela , AAke Nordlund

Kinetic Alfven waves (KAWs) are fundamental to energy transport and small-scale structure formation in the turbulent, magnetized interstellar medium (ISM). While first-order Korteweg--de Vries (KdV) models describe weakly nonlinear KAW…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Manpreet Singh , Siming Liu , N. S. Saini