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We study how the structure and variability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in accretion discs converge with domain size. Our results are based on a series of vertically stratified local simulations, computed using the Athena code,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jacob B. Simon , Kris Beckwith , Philip J. Armitage

We give an overview of the progress that has been made in recent years in understanding the dynamic multiscaling of homogeneous, isotropic turbulence and related problems. We emphasise the similarity of this problem with the dynamic scaling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rahul Pandit , Samriddhi Sankar Ray , Dhrubaditya Mitra

We examine the multiscaling behavior of the normal- and superfluid-velocity structure functions in three-dimensional superfluid turbulence by using a shell model for the three-dimensional (3D) Hall-Vinen-Bekharevich-Khalatnikov (HVBK)…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-12 Vishwanath Shukla , Rahul Pandit

Large eddy simulations (LES) are a powerful tool in understanding processes that are inaccessible by direct simulations due to their complexity, for example, in the highly turbulent regime. However, their accuracy and success depends on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-27 Philipp Grete , Dimitar G Vlaykov , Wolfram Schmidt , Dominik R G Schleicher

Supersonic turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is believed to decay rapidly within a flow crossing time irrespective of the degree of magnetization. However, this general consensus of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-10 Chang-Goo Kim , Shantanu Basu

A higher-order multiscale analysis of spatial anisotropy in inertial range magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is presented using measurements from the STEREO spacecraft in fast ambient solar wind. We show for the first time that, when measuring…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 K. T. Osman , K. H. Kiyani , S. C. Chapman , B. Hnat

We analyze the decay laws of the kinetic and magnetic energies and the evolution of correlation lengths in freely decaying incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Scale invariance of MHD equations assures that, in the case of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Leonardo Campanelli

We study the self-similar magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) of a quasi-spherical expanding void (viz. cavity or bubble) in the centre of a self-gravitating gas sphere with a general polytropic equation of state. We show various analytic asymptotic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-09 Yu-Qing Lou , Ren-Yu Hu

In various astrophysical contexts, we analyze self-similar behaviours of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) evolution of a quasi-spherical polytropic magnetized gas under self-gravity with the specific entropy conserved along streamlines. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Wei-Gang Wang , Yu-Qing Lou

We provide analytical and numerical results concerning multi-scale correlations between the resolved velocity field and the subgrid-scale (SGS) stress-tensor in large eddy simulations (LES). Following previous studies for Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-08 Moritz Linkmann , Michele Buzzicotti , Luca Biferale

We investigate the intermittency of energy dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence by identifying dissipative structures and measuring their characteristic scales. We find that the probability distribution of energy dissipation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Vladimir Zhdankin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Jean Carlos Perez , Steven M. Tobias

In magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, the large-scale magnetic field sets a preferred local direction for the small-scale dynamics, altering the statistics of turbulence from the isotropic case. This happens even in the absence of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Vladimir Zhdankin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Joanne Mason

This paper examines the consistency of the exact scaling laws for isotropic MHD turbulence in numerical simulations with large magnetic Prandtl numbers Pm and with Pm=1. The exact laws are used to elucidate the structure of the magnetic and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tarek A. Yousef , Francois Rincon , Alexander A. Schekochihin

We present numerical studies of 3-dimensional electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) turbulence. We investigate cascade timescale and anisotropy of freely decaying strong EMHD turbulence with zero electron skin depth. Cascade time scales with…

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

The scaling properties of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence are obtained from direct numerical simulations of decaying turbulence using $512^3$ modes. The results indicate that the turbulence does not follow the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wolf-Christian Mueller , Dieter Biskamp

We study decaying magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) turbulence stemming from the evolution of the Taylor-Green (TG) flow generalized recently to MHD, with equal viscosity and magnetic resistivity and up to equivalent grid resolutions of 2048^3…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Pouquet , E. Lee , M. E. Brachet , P. D. Mininni , D. Rosenberg

We demonstrate that special correlations in the initial conditions of freely evolving, homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence can lead to the formation of enormous current sheets. These coherent structures are observed at the peak…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Vassilios Dallas , Alexandros Alexakis

We present a new analysis of the anisotropic spectral energy distribution in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence permeated by a strong mean magnetic field. The turbulent flow is generated by high-resolution pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roland Grappin , Wolf-Christian Müller

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

Extended MHD is a one-fluid model that incorporates two-fluid effects such as electron inertia and the Hall drift. This model is used to construct fully nonlinear Alfv\'enic wave solutions, and thereby derive the kinetic and magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Hamdi M. Abdelhamid , Manasvi Lingam , Swadesh M. Mahajan