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We investigate the impact of a solid-body rotation $\Omega_0$ on the large-scale dynamics of an incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulent flow in presence of a background magnetic field $\bf B_0$ and at low Rossby number.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-24 Mélissa D. Menu , Sébastien Galtier , Ludovic Petitdemange

The inverse cascade of magnetic helicity in 3D-MHD turbulence is believed to be one of the processes responsible for large scale magnetic structure formation in astrophysical systems. In this work we present an exhaustive set of high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shiva Kumar Malapaka , Wolf-Christian Müller

The inverse cascade in MHD turbulence plays a crucial role in various astrophysical processes such as galaxy cluster formation, solar and stellar dynamo mechanisms, and the evolution of primordial magnetic fields in the early universe. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Jiyao Zhang , Axel Brandenburg

Helical magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with Hall effects is ubiquitous in heliophysics and plasma physics, such as star formation and solar activities, and its intrinsic mechanisms are still not clearly explained. Direct numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Running Hu , Jin-Han Xie , Xinliang Li , Changping Yu , Yuan Hu , Jianchun Wang , Shiyi Chen

The emergence of a large scale magnetic field from randomly forced isotropic strongly helical flows is discussed in terms of the inverse cascade of magnetic helicity and the alpha-effect. In simulations of such flows the maximum field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg

We investigate the scale-locality of cascades of conserved invariants at high kinetic and magnetic Reynolds numbers in the ``inertial-inductive range'' of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, where velocity and magnetic field increments…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Hussein Aluie , Gregory L. Eyink

In turbulence, for neutral or conducting fluids, a large ratio of scales is excited because of the possible occurrence of inverse cascades to large, global scales together with direct cascades to small, dissipative scales, as observed in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-03 Annick Pouquet , Julia E. Stawarz , Duane Rosenberg

This experimental study analyzes the relationship between the dimensionality of turbulence and the upscale or downscale nature of its energy transfers. We do so by forcing low-$Rm$ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a confined channel,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-12 N. T. Baker , A. Pothérat , L. Davoust , F. Debray

Using direct numerical simulation of hydrodynamic turbulence with helicity forcing applied at all scales, a near-maximum helical turbulent state is obtained, with an inverse energy cascade at scales larger than the energy forcing scale and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-20 Franck Plunian , Andrei Teimurazov , Rodion Stepanov , Mahendra Kumar Verma

We investigate the transfer of energy from large scales to small scales in fully developed forced three-dimensional MHD-turbulence by analyzing the results of direct numerical simulations in the absence of an externally imposed uniform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Alexandros Alexakis , Pablo D. Mininni , Annick Pouquet

Magnetic helicity is a conserved quantity of ideal magneto-hydrodynamics characterized by an inverse turbulent cascade. Accordingly, it is often invoked as one of the basic physical quantities driving the generation and structuring of…

Magnetic helicity plays a tremendously important role when it is different from zero on average. Most notably, it leads to the phenomenon of an inverse cascade. Here, we consider decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence as well as some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Axel Brandenburg , Gustav Larsson

To elucidate the cascade direction of the solar wind turbulence, we analyzed magnetic helicity density spectra from the Parker Solar Probe data across more than 500 heliocentric distances. For the first time, we confirmed a persistent…

This article reviews recent studies of scale interactions in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. The present day increase of computing power, which allows for the exploration of different configurations of turbulence in conducting flows, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. D. Mininni

Aims. We investigated plasma turbulence in the context of solar wind. We concentrated on properties of ideal second-order magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall MHD invariants. Methods. We studied the results of a two-dimensional hybrid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Petr Hellinger , Victor Montagud-Camps

In this paper, we study the development of anisotropy in strong MHD turbulence in the presence of a large scale magnetic field B 0 by analyzing the results of direct numerical simulations. Our results show that the developed anisotropy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Sita Sundar , Mahendra K. Verma , Alexandros Alexakis , Anando G. Chatterjee

Spectral transfer processes in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are investigated analytically by decomposition of the velocity and magnetic fields in Fourier space into helical modes. Steady solutions of the dynamical system which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-18 Moritz F. Linkmann , Arjun Berera , Mairi E. McKay , Julia Jäger

We present a detailed direct numerical simulation of statistically steady, homogeneous, isotropic, two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (2D MHD) turbulence. Our study concentrates on the inverse cascade of the magnetic vector potential. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-24 Debarghya Banerjee , Rahul Pandit

We investigate hydromagnetic turbulence of primordial magnetic fields using magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an expanding universe. We present the basic, covariant MHD equations, find solutions for MHD waves in the early universe, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Axel Brandenburg , Kari Enqvist , Poul Olesen

We analyze direct numerical simulations of large-scale dynamos in inhomogeneous nonhelically driven rotating turbulence with and without shear. The forcing is modulated so that the turbulent intensity peaks in the middle of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Axel Brandenburg , Ethan T. Vishniac