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Magnetic reconnection, often accompanied by turbulence interaction, is a ubiquitous phenomenon in astrophysical environments. However, the current understanding of the nature of turbulent magnetic reconnection remains insufficient. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Shi-Min Liang , Jian-Fu Zhang , Na-Na Gao , Nian-Yu Yi

In fluid turbulence, energy is transferred from a scale to another by an energy cascade that depends only on the energy dissipation rate. It leads by dimensional arguments to the Kolmogorov 1941 (K41) spectrum. Remarkably the normal modes…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-19 Gustavo Düring , Christophe Josserand , Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergio Rica

Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial plasmas but no universal theory exists. Even the detailed energy dynamics in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are still not well understood. We present a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-06 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

We present results of large-scale three-dimensional simulations of weakly magnetized supersonic turbulence at grid resolutions up to 1024^3 cells. Our numerical experiments are carried out with the Piecewise Parabolic Method on a Local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-13 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman , Paolo Padoan

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence regulates the transfer of energy from large to small scales in many astrophysical systems, including the solar atmosphere. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations with unprecedentedly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-30 Chuanfei Dong , Liang Wang , Yi-Min Huang , Luca Comisso , Timothy A. Sandstrom , Amitava Bhattacharjee

We report on three-dimensional direct numerical simulation of wave turbulence on the free surface of a magnetic fluid subjected to an external horizontal magnetic field. A transition from capillarywave turbulence to anisotropic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Evgeny Kochurin , Guillaume Ricard , Nikolay Zubarev , Eric Falcon

We derive the exact law for three-dimensional (3D) homogeneous compressible isothermal Hall magnetohydrodynamics (CHMHD) turbulence, without the assumption of isotropy. The Hall current is shown to introduce new flux and sources terms that…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Nahuel Andrés , Sébastien Galtier , Fouad Sahraoui

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence affects both terrestrial and astrophysical plasmas. The properties of magnetized turbulence must be better understood to more accurately characterize these systems. This work presents ideal MHD simulations of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-28 Forrest W. Glines , Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea

A nested polyhedra model has been developed for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Driving only the velocity field at large scales with random, divergence free forcing results in a clear, stationary $k^{-5/3}$ spectrum for both kinetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Ö. D. Gürcan

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

Simulations of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are performed with a fluid and a kinetic code. The initial condition is an ensemble of long-wavelength, counter-propagating, shear-Alfv\'{e}n waves, which interact and rapidly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 K. D. Makwana , V. Zhdankin , H. Li , W. Daughton , F. Cattaneo

A direct numerical simulation of the interaction of plane capillary waves on the surface of a liquid dielectric in an external tangential electric field taking into account viscous forces has been performed. It has been shown that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-18 Evgeny A. Kochurin

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

Local magnetic reversals are an inseparable part of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence whose collective outcome on an arbitrary scale in the inertial range may lead to a global stochastic reconnection event with a rate independent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Amir Jafari , Ethan Vishniac , Siyao Xu

Inertial range energy transfer in three dimensional fully developed binary fluid turbulence is studied under the assumption of statistical homogeneity. Using two point statistics, exact relations corresponding to the energy cascade are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-27 Nandita Pan , Supratik Banerjee

We present numerical simulations of driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with weak/moderate imposed magnetic fields. The main goal is to clarify dynamics of magnetic field growth. We also investigate the effects of the imposed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Cho , E. Vishniac , A. Beresnyak , A. Lazarian , D. Ryu

In this paper, we investigate the statistical features of the fully developed, forced, rapidly rotating, {turbulent} system using numerical simulations, and model {the} energy {spectrum} that {fits} well with the numerical data. Among the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-05 Manohar K. Sharma , Mahendra K. Verma , Sagar Chakraborty

In turbulent flows, the fluid element gets deformed by chaotic motion due to the formation of sharp velocity gradients. A direct connection between the element of fluid stresses and the energy balance still remains elusive. Here, an exact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-21 Damiano Capocci

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is pervasive in astrophysical systems. Recent high-resolution numerical simulations suggest that the energy spectrum of strong incompressible MHD turbulence is $E(k_{\perp})\propto k_{\perp}^{-3/2}$. So…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 Stanislav Boldyrev , Joanne Mason , Fausto Cattaneo

We study the long-time evolution of gravity waves on deep water exited by the stochastic external force concentrated in moderately small wave numbers. We numerically implement the primitive Euler equations for the potential flow of an ideal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Dyachenko , A. O. Korotkevich , V. E. Zakharov