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Magnetic reconnection is a process that changes magnetic field topology in highly conducting fluids. Within the standard Sweet-Parker model, this process would be too slow to explain observations (e.g. solar flares). In reality, the process…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Grzegorz Kowal , Diego A. Falceta-Gonçalves , Alex Lazarian , Ethan T. Vishniac

The dynamic renormalization group (RG) is used to study the large-distance and long-time limits of viscous and resistive incompressible magnetohydrodynamics subject to random forces and currents. The scale-dependent viscosity and magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arjun Berera , David Hochberg

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

Reconnection and turbulence are two of the most commonly observed dynamical processes in plasmas, but their relationship is still not fully understood. Using 2.5D kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of both strong turbulence and…

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

We compare the properties of ordinary strong magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a strongly magnetized medium with the recently discovered viscosity-damped regime. We focus on energy spectra, anisotropy, and intermittency. Our most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian , Ethan T. Vishniac

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. Field theoretic renormalization group methods…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-03 N. V. Antonov , N. M. Gulitskiy

We performed numerical simulations of decaying quantum turbulence by using a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation, that includes a beyond mean field correction and a nonlocal interaction potential. The nonlocal potential is chosen in order…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-04 Nicolás Pablo Müller , Giorgio Krstulovic

Turbulence in the magnetized plasma is well understood to be the consequence of wave interactions. When the Hall effect is added to the minimum magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the MHD waves become dispersive and different nonlinear interactions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Erik C. Hansen , Prerana Sharma , Swadesh M. Mahajan

The spectral slope of Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence varies depending on the spectral theory considered; $ -3/2 $ is the spectral slope in Kraichnan-Iroshnikov-Dobrowolny (KID) theory, $ -5/3 $ in Marsch-Matthaeus-Zhou's and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Tesfalem Abate Tegegn

The inertial-interval energy spectrum of strong magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with a uniform background magnetic field was observed numerically to be close to $k^{-3/2}$ by a number of independent groups. A dissenting opinion has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-30 J. C. Perez , J. Mason , S. Boldyrev , F. Cattaneo

A weak turbulence theory is derived for magnetohydrodynamics under rapid rotation and in the presence of a large-scale magnetic field. The angular velocity $\Omega_0$ is assumed to be uniform and parallel to the constant Alfv\'en speed…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Sebastien Galtier

The inverse transfer of magnetic helicity is a fundamental process which may explain large scale magnetic structure formation and sustainement. Until very recently, direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the inverse transfer in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Wolf-Christian Müller

The field theoretic renormalization group and the operator product expansion are applied to the model of passive vector (magnetic) field advected by a random turbulent velocity field. The latter is governed by the Navier--Stokes equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-01 N. V. Antonov , M. M. Kostenko

(Abridged) We consider dynamics and turbulent interaction of whistler modes within the framework of inertialess electron MHD (EMHD). We argue there is no energy principle in EMHD: any stationary closed configuration is neutrally stable. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Maxim Lyutikov

A dynamical vectorial equation for homogeneous incompressible Hall-MHD turbulence together with the exact scaling law for third-order correlation tensors, analogous to that for the incompressible MHD, is rederived and applied to the results…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Petr Hellinger , Andrea Verdini , Simone Landi , Luca Franci , Lorenzo Matteini

We present high resolution numerical simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We concentrate on studies of spectra and anisotropy of velocity and density. We describe a technique of separating different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

The Eulerian space-time correlation of strong Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in strongly magnetized plasmas is investigated by means of direct numerical simulations of Reduced MHD turbulence and phenomenological modeling. Two new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-27 Jean C. Perez , Sofiane Bourouaine

Scale interactions in Hall MHD are studied using both the mean field theory derivation of transport coefficients, and direct numerical simulations in three space dimensions. In the magnetically dominated regime, the eddy resistivity is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. D. Mininni , A. Alexakis , A. Pouquet

This paper studies cosmic ray (CR) transport in magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. CR transport is strongly dependent on the properties of the magnetic turbulence. We perform test particle simulations to study the interactions of CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Snehanshu Maiti , Kirit Makwana , Heshou Zhang , Huirong Yan