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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

To comprehensively understand saturation of two-dimensional ($2$D) magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz-instability-driven turbulence, energy transfer analysis is extended from the traditional interaction between scales to include eigenmode…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 B. Tripathi , A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel , E. H. Anders

Electron magnetohydrodynamics (EMHD) provides a realistic model for electron-scale heating and acceleration in weakly collisional space plasmas. A divergence-free Banerjee-Galtier type (Banerjee and Galtier, JoPA, 2017) exact relation is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Supratik Banerjee , Arijit Halder , Amita Das

A wave turbulence theory is developed for inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics (IEMHD) in the presence of a relatively strong and uniform external magnetic field $\boldsymbol{B_0} = B_0 \hat{\boldsymbol{e}}_\|$. This regime is relevant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Vincent David , Sébastien Galtier

We prove that inter-scale transfer of kinetic energy in compressible turbulence is dominated by local interactions. In particular, our results preclude direct transfer of kinetic energy from large-scales directly to dissipation scales, such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hussein Aluie

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a cross-field process relevant to many systems. A prerequisite for understanding these systems is to constrain the role of MHD turbulence, and in particular the energy exchange between kinetic and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-10 R. Skalidis , K. Tassis , V. Pavlidou

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

The effect of large scales on the statistics and dynamics of turbulent fluctuations is studied using data from high resolution direct numerical simulations. Three different kinds of forcing, and spatial resolutions ranging from 256^3 to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. D. Mininni , A. Alexakis , A. Pouquet

A short, abrupt increase in energy injection rate into steady strongly-driven rotating turbulent flow is used as a probe for energy transfer in the system. The injected excessive energy is localized in time and space and its spectra differ…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Omri Shaltiel , Alon Salhov , Omri Gat , Eran Sharon

Additional physics beyond standard hydrodynamics is needed to fully model the intracluster medium (ICM); however, as we move to more sophisticated models, it is important to consider the role of magnetic fields and the way the fluid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-04 Hilary Egan , Brian W. O'Shea , Eric Hallman , Jack Burns , Hao Xu , David Collins , Hui Li , Michael L. Norman

A theory of non-homogeneous turbulence is developed and is applied to boundary-free shear flows. The theory introduces assumptions of inner and outer similarity for the non-homogeneity of two-point statistics and predicts power law scalings…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Jiangang Chen , John Christos Vassilicos

We present the first study of the multiscaling of time-dependent velocity and magnetic-field structure functions in homogeneous, isotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in three dimensions. We generalize the formalism that has been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-08 Samriddhi Sankar Ray , Ganapati Sahoo , Rahul Pandit

The Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations in the presence of a guiding magnetic field are investigated by means of direct numerical simulations. The basis of the investigation consists of 9 runs forced at the small scales. The results…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexandros Alexakis

Recent MHD dynamo simulations for magnetic Prandtl number $>1$ demonstrate that when MHD turbulence is forced with sufficient kinetic helicity, the saturated magnetic energy spectrum evolves from having a single peak below the forcing scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric G. Blackman

Previous work has introduced scale-split energy density \psi for a given vector field B in order to quantify the field stochasticity S(t). Application to turbulent magnetic fields leads to the prediction that tangling magnetic field by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Amir Jafari , Ethan Vishniac , Vignesh Vaikundaraman

We compare non-locality of interactions between different scales in hydrodynamic (HD) turbulence and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a strongly magnetized medium. We use 3-dimensional incompressible direct numerical simulations to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jungyeon Cho

We report an extensive numerical study of the small-scale turbulent dynamo at large magnetic Prandtl numbers Pm. A Pm scan is given for the model case of low-Reynolds-number turbulence. We concentrate on three topics: magnetic-energy…

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

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

We investigate the properties of plasma turbulence by means of two-dimensional Hall-magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) and hybrid particle-in-cell (HPIC) numerical simulations. We find that HMHD simulations exhibit spectral properties that are in…

Several recent advances in turbulent dynamo theory are reviewed. High resolution simulations of small-scale and large-scale dynamo action in periodic domains are compared with each other and contrasted with similar results at low magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Axel Brandenburg , Dmitry Sokoloff , Kandaswamy Subramanian