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Using 3D high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations, tracking both electrons and ions, we study the effects of turbulence and conduction in the hot intracluster medium. We show how the power spectrum of the gas density perturbations can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Gaspari , E. Churazov

We present a dynamical spectral model for Large Eddy Simulation of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations based on the Eddy Damped Quasi Normal Markovian approximation. This model extends classical spectral Large Eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Baerenzung , H. Politano , Y. Ponty , A. Pouquet

Recent numerical and observational studies contain conflicting reports on the spectrum of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. In an attempt to clarify the issue we investigate anisotropic incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Jean Carlos Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev

This paper investigates the changes in spatial properties when magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves undergo resonant damping in the Alfv\'en continuum. The analysis is carried out for a 1D cylindrical pressure-less plasma with a straight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-18 M. Goossens , I. Arregui , R. Soler , T. Van Doorsselaere

In hydrodynamic turbulence, the kinetic energy injected at large scales cascades to the inertial range, leading to a constant kinetic energy flux. In contrast, in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, a fraction of kinetic energy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-20 Mahendra K. Verma , Shadab Alam , Soumyadeep Chatterjee

We study a simple magnetohydrodynamical approach in which hydrodynamics and MHD turbulence are coupled in a shell model, with given dynamo constrains in the large scales. We consider the case of a low Prandtl number fluid for which the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Roberto Benzi , Jean-Francois Pinton

In the presence of a strong uniform magnetic field, we study the influence of space noncommutativity on the electromagnetic waves propagating through a quasi-static homogeneous plasma. In this treatment, we have adopted a physical model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bourouaine , A. Benslama

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest description of magnetic plasma turbulence in a variety of astrophysical and laboratory systems. MHD turbulence with nonzero cross helicity is often called imbalanced, as it implies that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jean Carlos Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev

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 energy spectrum and the nolinear cascade rates of MHD turbulence is not clearly understood. We have addressed this problem using direct numerical simulation and analytical calculations. Our numerical simulations indicate that…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Mahendra K. Verma , Gaurav Dar

We present a model for nonlinear decay of the weak wave in three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We show that the decay rate is different for parallel and perpendicular waves. We provide a general formula…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Andrey Beresnyak , Alex Lazarian

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 perform three dimensional (3D) ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to study the parametric decay instability of Alfven waves in turbulent plasmas and explore its possible applications in the solar wind. We find that, over a broad…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 Mijie Shi , Hui Li , Chijie Xiao , Xiaogang Wang

Turbulence in the weakly collisional intracluster medium of galaxies (ICM) is able to generate strong thermal velocity anisotropies in the ions (with respect to the local magnetic field direction), if the magnetic moment of the particles is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 R. Santos-Lima , H. Yan , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

In presence of an externally supported, mean magnetic field a turbulent, conducting medium, such as plasma, becomes anisotropic. This mean magnetic field, which is separate from the fluctuating, turbulent part of the magnetic field, has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Riddhi Bandyopadhyay , S. Oughton , M. Wan , W. H. Matthaeus , R. Chhiber , T. N. Parashar

We present the results of three-dimensional simulations of supersonic Euler turbulence with grid resolutions up to 1024^3 points. Our numerical experiments describe nonmagnetized driven turbulent flows with an isothermal equation of state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Rick Wagner , Michael L. Norman , Paolo Padoan

An analytical theory of wave turbulence is developed for pure compressible magnetohydrodynamics in the small $\beta$ limit. In contrast to previous works where the multiple scale method was not mentioned and slow magneto-acoustic waves were…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Sebastien Galtier

A wave turbulence theory is developed for inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics (IEMHD) in the presence of a relatively strong and uniform external magnetic field $\boldsymbol{B_0} = B_0 \hat{\boldsymbol{e}}_\|$. This regime is relevant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Vincent David , Sébastien Galtier

It has been proposed recently by Loureiro & Boldyrev [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 245101 (2017)] and Mallet et al. [Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 468, 4862 (2017)] that strongly anisotropic current sheets formed in the inertial range of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Justin Walker , Stanislav Boldyrev , Nuno Loureiro

The first estimation of the energy cascade rate ${|\epsilon_C|}$ of magnetosheath turbulence is obtained using the CLUSTER and THEMIS spacecraft data and an exact law of compressible isothermal magnetohydrodynamics turbulence.…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Lina Hadid , Fouad Sahraoui , Sebastien Galtier , Shiyong Huang