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The dynamical responses of ferromagnet to the propagating electromagnetic field wave passing through it are modelled and studied here by Monte Carlo simulation in two dimensional Ising ferromagnet. Here, the electromagnetic wave is linearly…

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An analysis of instability dynamics in a stochastic magnetic field is presented for the tractable case of the resistive interchange. Externally prescribed static magnetic perturbations convert the eigenmode problem to a stochastic…

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At kinetic scales in the solar wind, instabilities transfer energy from particles to fluctuations in the electromagnetic fields while restoring plasma conditions towards thermodynamic equilibrium. We investigate the interplay between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Simon Opie , Daniel Verscharen , Christopher H. K. Chen , Christopher J. Owen , Philip A. Isenberg

We test a new technique of studying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence suggested by Lazarian \& Pogosyan, using synthetic synchrotron polarization observations. This paper focuses on a one-point statistics, which is termed the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Hyeseung Lee , Jungyeon Cho

Recent analytical works on strong magnetized plasma turbulence have hypothesized the existence of a range of scales where the tearing instability may govern the energy cascade. In this paper, we estimate the conditions under which such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Nuno F. Loureiro , Stanislav Boldyrev

Dynamo action owing to helically forced turbulence and large-scale shear is studied using direct numerical simulations. The resulting magnetic field displays propagating wave-like behavior. This behavior can be modelled in terms of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg

This chapter reviews the recent progress made mainly during the last two decades on wave turbulence in magnetized plasmas (MHD, Hall MHD and electron MHD) in the incompressible and compressible cases. The emphasis is made on homogeneous and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Sebastien Galtier

Plasma turbulence in the edge of magnetic confinement devices is customarily treated as full-$f$ due to large fluctuations. For computational efficiency, field-aligned coordinates are employed, separating the magnetic field into equilibrium…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Kaiyu Zhang , Wladimir Zholobenko , Andreas Stegmeir , Konrad Eder , Frank Jenko

Magnetized plasmas with equilibrium density gradients support drift-wave turbulence, which is often regulated by self-generated zonal flows. In this work, we experimentally examine the effect of increasing the magnetic field on turbulence…

We examine the local conditions for radiative damping and driving of short wavelength, propagating hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in static, optically thick, stratified equilibria. We show that so-called strange modes in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Omer Blaes , Aristotle Socrates

We describe results from particle-in-cell simulations of driven turbulence in collisionless, magnetized, relativistic pair plasma. This physical regime provides a simple setting for investigating the basic properties of kinetic turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

Turbulence is the most common state of astrophysical flows. In typical astrophysical fluids, turbulence is accompanied by strong magnetic fields, which has a large impact on the dynamics of the turbulent cascade. Recently, there has been a…

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

We develop an analytic model of intermittent, three-dimensional, strong, reduced magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with zero cross helicity. We take the fluctuation amplitudes to have a log-Poisson distribution and incorporate into the model a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Alexander A. Schekochihin , Alfred Mallet

In quasi-static MHD, experiments and numerical simulations reveal that the energy spectrum is steeper than Kolmogorov's $k^{-5/3}$ spectrum. To explain this observation, we construct turbulence models based on variable energy flux, which is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mahendra K. Verma , K. Sandeep Reddy

In a previous work [16], a new model was introduced, taking into account the role of the Fermi weak force due to neutrinos coupled to magnetohydrodynamic plasmas. The resulting neutrino-magnetohydrodynamics was investigated in a particular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Fernando Haas , Kellen Alves Pascoal

Clear evidence for a positive correlation is established between the magnitude of magnetic fluctuations in the lower-hybrid frequency range and enhancement of reconnection rates in a well-controlled laboratory plasma. The fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hantao Ji , Stephen Terry , Masaaki Yamada , Russell Kulsrud , Aleksey Kuritsyn , Yang Ren

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and magnetic reconnection are ubiquitous in astrophysical environments. In most situations, these processes do not occur in isolation, but interact with each other. This renders a comprehensive theory of these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 L. Comisso , Y. -M. Huang , M. Lingam , E. Hirvijoki , A. Bhattacharjee

Kinetic plasma theory is used to generate synthetic spacecraft data to analyze and interpret the compressible fluctuations in the inertial range of solar wind turbulence. The kinetic counterparts of the three familiar linear MHD wave…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. G. Klein , G. G. Howes , J. M. TenBarge , S. D. Bale , C. H. K. Chen , C. S. Salem

Direct numerical simulations of decaying and forced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence without and with mean magnetic field are analyzed by higher-order two-point statistics. The turbulence exhibits statistical anisotropy with respect to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wolf-Christian Mueller , Dieter Biskamp , Roland Grappin

The degree of linear polarization has recently been found to show wide random variations over the solar disk. These variations are presumably at least partly due to fluctuations in the flux density of turbulent photospheric magnetic fields…

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