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We derive a new shell model of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in which the energy transfers are not necessary local. Like the original MHD equations, the model conserves the total energy, magnetic helicity, cross-helicity and volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 F. Plunian , R. Stepanov

The first example of a turbulent system where the failure of the hypothesis of small-scale isotropy restoration is detectable both in the `flattening' of the inertial-range scaling exponent hierarchy, and in the behavior of odd-order…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. V. Antonov , J. Honkonen , A. Mazzino , P. Muratore-Ginanneschi

We extend the use of the Tsallis statistic to measure the differences in gas dynamics relative to the mean magnetic field present from natural eddy-type motions existing in magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence. The variation in gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-13 Diego F. González-Casanova , A. Lazarian , J. Cho

We study the statistics of dynamical quantities associated with magnetic reconnection events embedded in a sea of strong background magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence using direct numerical simulations. We focus on the relationship of the…

This paper examines the behavior of the dimensionless dissipation rate $C_{\varepsilon}$ for stationary and nonstationary magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in presence of external forces. By combining with previous studies for freely…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-05 Moritz Linkmann , Arjun Berera , Erin E. Goldstraw

Previous studies have established that a weak-to-strong transition occurs in Alfvenic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence as energy cascades from large to small scales. However, the spatiotemporal (frequency-wavenumber) properties of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Chuanpeng Hou , Ka Ho Yuen

The intermittent small-scale structure of turbulence governs energy dissipation in many astrophysical plasmas and is often believed to have universal properties for sufficiently large systems. In this work, we argue that small-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Vladimir Zhdankin , Justin Walker , Stanislav Boldyrev , Geoffroy Lesur

(Abridged) We report results of three dimensional MHD simulations of global accretion disks threaded with weak vertical magnetic fields. We perform the simulations in the spherical coordinates with different temperature profiles and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We present pseudospectral direct-numerical-simulation (DNS) studies of the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations (3DRFMHD) with a stochastic force that has zero mean and a variance $\sim k^{-3}$, where $k$ is the wavenumber,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-10 Ganapati Sahoo , Nadia Bihari Padhan , Abhik Basu , Rahul Pandit

Turbulence is a ubiquitous process that transfers energy across many spatial and temporal scales, thereby influencing particle transport and heating. Recent progress has improved our understanding of the anisotropy of turbulence with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Chuanpeng Hou

The free decay of non-helical relativistic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is studied numerically, and found to exhibit cascading of magnetic energy toward large scales. Evolution of the magnetic energy spectrum $P_M(k,t)$ is self-similar in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Jonathan Zrake

The temporal property of the compressible magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence remains a fundamental unsolved question. Recent studies based on the spatial-temporal analysis in the global frame of reference suggest that the majority of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Ka Ho Yuen , Hui Li , Huirong Yan

Compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical phenomena ranging from the intergalactic to the stellar scales. In studying them, numerical simulations are nearly inescapable, due to the large degree of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-27 Dimitar G Vlaykov , Philipp Grete , Wolfram Schmidt , Dominik R G Schleicher

We show that a recently proposed [J. Fleischer and P.H. Diamond, {\em Phys. Rev. E}{\bf 58}, R2709 (1998)] one-dimensional Burgers-like model for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is in effect identical to existing models for drifting lines and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Abhik Basu , Jayanta K Bhattacharjee , Sriram Ramaswamy

We perform direct numerical simulations of quasi-static magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, and compute various energy transfers including the ring-to-ring and conical energy transfers, and the energy fluxes of the perpendicular and parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-03 K. Sandeep Reddy , Raghwendra Kumar , Mahendra K. Verma

Results are presented of direct numerical simulations of incompressible, homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence without a mean magnetic field, subject to different mechanical forcing functions commonly used in the literature.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-29 Mairi E. McKay , Moritz Linkmann , Daniel Clark , Adam A. Chalupa , Arjun Berera

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is a ubiquitous phenomenon in solar physics, plasma physics and astrophysics and governs many properties of the flows of well-conductive fluids. Recently, conflicting spectral slopes for the inertial range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Andrey Beresnyak

We study the transition in dimensionality of a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flow forced only mechanically, when the strength of a magnetic guiding field is gradually increased. We use numerical simulations to consider cases in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-12 N. E. Sujovolsky , P. D. Mininni

We present an exact analytic solution for decaying incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Our solution reveals a dual formulation in terms of two interacting Euler ensembles--one for hydrodynamic and another for magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-15 Alexander Migdal

Magnetised plasma turbulence pervades the universe and is likely to play an important role in a variety of astrophysical settings. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest theoretical framework in which phenomenological models for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Joanne Mason , Jean C. Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo