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A weak wave turbulence theory is developed for two-dimensional (2D) magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We derive and analyze the kinetic equation describing the three-wave interactions of pseudo-Alfv\'en waves. Our analysis is greatly helped by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Natalia Tronko , Sergey V. Nazarenko , Sebastien Galtier

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

In hydrodynamic turbulence, the kinetic energy injected at large scales cascades to the inertial range, leading to a constant kinetic energy flux. In contrast, in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, a fraction of kinetic energy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-20 Mahendra K. Verma , Shadab Alam , Soumyadeep Chatterjee

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

We (analytically) calculate the energy spectrum corresponding to various experimental and numerical turbulence data analyzed by Benzi et al.. We find two bottleneck phenomena: While the local scaling exponent $\zeta_r(r)$ of the structure…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Detlef Lohse , Axel Mueller-Groeling

This Letter identifies the physical mechanism for the quench of turbulent resistivity in 2D MHD. Without an imposed, ordered magnetic field, a multi-scale, blob-and-barrier structure of magnetic potential forms spontaneously. Magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-07 Xiang Fan , P. H. Diamond , L. Chacón

We briefly review helicity dynamics, inverse and bi-directional cascades in fluid and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, with an emphasis on the latter. The energy of a turbulent system, an invariant in the non-dissipative case, is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-13 A. Pouquet , D. Rosenberg , J. E. Stawarz , R. Marino

We present results from two-dimensional numerical simulations of a supersonic turbulent flow in the plane of the galactic disk, incorporating shear, thresholded and discrete star formation (SF), self-gravity, rotation and magnetic fields. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Passot , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , A. Pouquet

We find and investigate via numerical simulations self-sustained two-dimensional turbulence in a magnetohydrodynamic flow with a maximally simple configuration: plane, noninflectional (with a constant shear of velocity) and threaded by a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 G. R. Mamatsashvili , D. Z. Gogichaishvili , G. D. Chagelishvili , W. Horton

The effects of three-dimensional perturbations in two-dimensional turbulence are investigated, through a conformal field theory approach. We compute scaling exponents for the energy spectra of enstrophy and energy cascades, in a strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Moriconi

We analyse the universal properties of nonequilibrium steady states of driven Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in three dimensions (3d). We elucidate the dependence of various phenomenologically important dimensionless constants on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Abhik Basu

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

We discuss the possibility of dual local and non-local cascades in a 3D turbulent Beltrami flow, with inverse energy cascade and direct helicity cascade, by analogy with 2D turbulence. We discuss the corresponding energy spectrum in both…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-26 E. Herbert , F. Daviaud , B. Dubrulle , S. Nazarenko , A. Naso

In the presence of magnetic helicity, inverse transfer from small to large scales is well known in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and has applications in astrophysics, cosmology, and fusion plasmas. Using high resolution direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-23 Axel Brandenburg , Tina Kahniashvili , Alexander G. Tevzadze

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is invoked to address turbulent fluctuations in a variety of astrophysical systems. MHD turbulence in nature is often anisotropic and imbalanced, in that Alfvenic fluctuations moving in opposite directions along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-18 Jean C Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev

We consider the evolution of a family of 2D dispersive turbulence models. The members of this family involve the nonlinear advection of a dynamically active scalar field, the locality of the streamfunction-scalar relation is denoted by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-20 Jai Sukhatme , Leslie M. Smith

We first summarize briefly several properties concerning the dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) turbulence, with an emphasis on the inverse cascade of energy to the largest accessible scale of the system. In order to study a similar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-05 A. Pouquet , A. Sen , D. Rosenberg , P. D. Mininni , J. Baerenzung

A reason has been given for the inverse energy cascade in the two-dimensionalised rapidly rotating 3D incompressible turbulence. For such system, literature shows a possibility of the exponent of wavenumber in the energy spectrum's relation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sagar Chakraborty

With a non local shell model of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence we investigate numerically the turbulent dynamo action for low and high magnetic Prandtl numbers ($Pm$). The results obtained in the kinematic regime and along the way to dynamo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rodion Stepanov , Franck Plunian

We investigate the locality or nonlocality of the energy transfer and of the spectral interactions involved in the cascade for decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows in the presence of a uniform magnetic field $\bf B$ at various…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Alexakis , B. Bigot , H. Politano