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This paper proposes a new phenomenology for strong incompressible MHD turbulence with nonzero cross helicity. This phenomenology is then developed into a quantitative Fokker-Planck model that describes the time evolution of the anisotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

We propose a phenomenological theory of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the presence of a strong large-scale magnetic field, which establishes a link between the known anisotropic models of strong and weak MHD turbulence We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 Roland Grappin , Wolf-Christian Müller , Özgür Gürcan

We study statistical properties of synchrotron polarization emitted from media with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We use both synthetic and MHD turbulence simulation data for our studies. We obtain the spatial spectrum and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Hyeseung Lee , Alex Lazarian , Jungyeon Cho

In this paper we investigate the dynamics of magnetic helicity in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent flows focusing at scales larger than the forcing scale. Our results show a nonlocal inverse cascade of magnetic helicity, which occurs…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-23 Moritz Linkmann , Vassilios Dallas

A wide variety of astrophysical phenomena involve the flow of turbulent magnetized gas with relativistic velocity or energy density. Examples include gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, pulsars, magnetars, micro-quasars, merging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

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

A three-dimensional numerical computation of magnetohydrodynamic dynamo behavior is described. The dynamo is mechanically forced with a driving term of the Taylor-Green type. The magnetic field development is followed from negligibly small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. D. Mininni , Y. Ponty , D. C. Montgomery , J. -F. Pinton , H. Politano , A. Pouquet

We study the effects of homogenous and isotropic initial conditions on decaying Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We show that for an initial distribution of velocity and magnetic field fluctuations, appropriately defined structure functions…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Abhik Basu

We study the intermittency and field-line structure of the MHD turbulence in plasmas with very large magnetic Prandtl numbers. In this regime, which is realized in the interstellar medium, some accretion disks, protogalaxies, galaxy-cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Schekochihin , J. Maron , S. Cowley , J. McWilliams

Magnetohydrodynamic(MHD) turbulence displays velocity anisotropies which reflect the direction of the magnetic field. This anisotropy has led to the development of a number of statistical techniques for studying magnetic fields in the…

Nonthermal acceleration of particles in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence plays a central role in a wide variety of astrophysical sites. This physics is addressed here in the context of a strong turbulence, composed of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-06 Martin Lemoine

The theory of mean field electrodynamics for diffusive processes in Electron Magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) model is presented. In contrast to Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) the evolution of magnetic field here is governed by a nonlinear equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Amita Das , P. H. Diamond

The three-dimensional (3D) Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) equations are often used to study turbulence in the solar wind. Some earlier studies have investigated the statistical properties of 3D HMHD turbulence by using simple shell models…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Sharad K Yadav , Hideaki Miura , Rahul Pandit

The nonlinear dynamics of a bundle of magnetic flux ropes driven by stationary fluid motions at their endpoints is studied, by performing numerical simulations of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. The development of MHD turbulence is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pablo Dmitruk , Daniel O. Gomez , William H. Matthaeus

We investigate the transition of the solar wind turbulent cascade from MHD to sub-ion range by means of a detail comparison between in situ observations and hybrid numerical simulations. In particular we focus on the properties of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 L. Matteini , L. Franci , O. Alexandrova , C. Lacombe , S. Landi , P. Hellinger , E. Papini , A. Verdini

Numerical simulations of the 3D MHD-equations that describe rotating magnetoconvection in a Cartesian box have been performed using the code NIRVANA. The characteristics of averaged quantities like the turbulence intensity and the turbulent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 A. Giesecke

We derive two new forms of the K\'arm\'an-Howarth-Monin equation for decaying compressible Hall magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We test them on results of a weakly-compressible, two-dimensional, moderate-Reynolds-number Hall MHD…

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

The anisotropy of velocities in MHD turbulence is demonstrated explicitly by calculating the velocity gradients as a function of direction in representative simulations of decaying turbulence. It follows that the optical depths of spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. S. Wiebe , W. D. Watson

The free decay of MHD turbulence at large Reynolds numbers is studied numerically using a shell model. We study the statistical properties based on representative sample of realisations (128 realisations for each type of initial conditions)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-09-23 Peter Frick , Rodion Stepanov