English
Related papers

Related papers: Multiscaling in Models of Magnetohydrodynamic Turb…

200 papers

Recent progress regarding the noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation of extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD), a model with Hall drift and electron inertia, is summarized. The advantages of the Hamiltonian approach are invoked to study some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 George Miloshevich , Manasvi Lingam , Philip J. Morrison

We perform direct 3-dimensional numerical simulations for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a periodic box of size $2\pi$ threaded by strong uniform magnetic fields. We use a pseudo-spectral code with hyperviscosity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jungyeon Cho , Ethan T. Vishniac

We have tested the ability of driven turbulence to generate magnetic field structure from a weak uniform field using three dimensional numerical simulations of incompressible turbulence. We used a pseudo-spectral code with a numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jungyeon Cho , Ethan T. Vishniac

We performed a series of high-resolution (up to 1024^3) direct numerical simulations of hydro and MHD strong turbulence. We found that for simulations with normal viscosity the slopes for spectra of MHD are similar, although slightly more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Andrey Beresnyak , Alex Lazarian

Composed of shocked solar wind, the Earth's magnetosheath serves as a natural laboratory to study the transition of turbulence from low Alfv{\'e}n Mach number, $M_\mathrm{A}$, to high $M_\mathrm{A}$. The simultaneous observations of…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Hui Li , Wence Jiang , Chi Wang , Daniel Verscharen , Chen Zeng , C. T. Russell , B. Giles , J. L. Burch

We investigate the scale-locality of cascades of conserved invariants at high kinetic and magnetic Reynolds numbers in the ``inertial-inductive range'' of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, where velocity and magnetic field increments…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Hussein Aluie , Gregory L. Eyink

In our previous work~\cite{SanchisAgudoVinuesa2025PRL}, we argued that viscous dissipation in turbulence can be understood as the macroscopic imprint of microscopic path uncertainty, and showed that a kernel variance field $s(y)$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-08 Marcial Sanchis-Agudo , Ricardo Vinuesa

We present a numerical study of emulsions in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence at $Re_\lambda=137$. The problem is addressed via Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), where the Volume of Fluid (VOF) is used to represent the complex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-09 Marco Crialesi-Esposito , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Sergio Chibbaro , Luca Brandt

In present study, we discuss results of applicability of discrete filters for large eddy simulation (LES) method of forced compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent flows with the scale-similarity model. Influences and effects of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-11-11 Alexander A. Chernyshov , Kirill. V. Karelsky , Arakel. S. Petrosyan

We derive the coarse-graining (CG) equations of incompressible Hall Magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) turbulence to investigate the {\it local (in space)} energy cascade rate as a function of the filtering scale $\ell$. First, the CG equations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Davide Manzini , Fouad Sahraoui , Francesco Califano , Renaud Ferrand

In this review, the methodology of large eddy simulations (LES) is introduced and applications in astrophysics are discussed. As theoretical framework, the scale decomposition of the dynamical equations for compressible neutral fluids by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Wolfram Schmidt-Brückner

This article reviews recent studies of scale interactions in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. The present day increase of computing power, which allows for the exploration of different configurations of turbulence in conducting flows, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. D. Mininni

Aims. We investigated plasma turbulence in the context of solar wind. We concentrated on properties of ideal second-order magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall MHD invariants. Methods. We studied the results of a two-dimensional hybrid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Petr Hellinger , Victor Montagud-Camps

Nonresonant current instability was identified by Bell (2004) as an important mechanism for magnetic field amplification in supernova remnants. In this paper we focus on studying the nonlinear stage of this instability using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-06 Andrey Beresnyak , Hui Li

Various exact laws governing compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall-MHD (CHMHD) turbulence have been derived in recent years. Other than their fundamental theoretical interest, these laws are generally used to estimate the energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 R. Ferrand , F. Sahraoui , S. Galtier , N. Andrés , P. Mininni , P. Dmitruk

The evolution of electromagnetic and thermodynamic fields in a non-ideal fluid are studied in the framework of ultrarelativistic transverse magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), which is essentially characterized by electric and magnetic fields being…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-20 M. Shokri , N. Sadooghi

Rotating turbulent flows form a challenging test case for large-eddy simulation (LES). We, therefore, propose and validate a new subgrid-scale (SGS) model for such flows. The proposed SGS model consists of a dissipative eddy viscosity term…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-30 Maurits H. Silvis , H. Jane Bae , F. Xavier Trias , Mahdi Abkar , Roel Verstappen

The anisotropy of magnetophydrodynamic turbulence is investigated by using solar wind data from the Helios 2 spacecraft. We investigate the behaviour of the complete high-order moment tensors of magnetic field increments and we compare the…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Vincenzo Carbone , Roberto Bruno , Pierluigi Veltri

Extended or generalized similarity is a ubiquitous but not well understood feature of turbulence that is realized over a finite range of scales. ULYSSES spacecraft solar polar passes at solar minimum provide \textit{in situ} observations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. C. Chapman , R. M. Nicol

We formulate and implement the Euler equations with SGS dynamics and provide numerical tests of an SGS turbulence energy model that predicts the turbulent pressure of unresolved velocity fluctuations and the rate of dissipation for highly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 W. Schmidt , C. Federrath