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We propose an alternative formulation for the exact relations in three-dimensional homogeneous turbulence using two-point statistics. Our finding is illustrated with incompressible hydrodynamic, standard and Hall magnetohydrodynamic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Supratik Banerjee , Sebastien Galtier

The Hosking integral, which characterizes magnetic helicity fluctuations in subvolumes, is known to govern the decay of magnetically dominated turbulence. Here we show that, when the evolution of the magnetic field is controlled by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Axel Brandenburg

We study the evolution of kinetic and magnetic energy spectra in magnetohydrodynamic flows in the presence of strong cross helicity. For forced turbulence, we find weak inverse transfer of kinetic energy toward the smallest wavenumber. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Axel Brandenburg , Sean Oughton

Turbulence sustains out-of-equilibrium energy fluxes shaped by conservation laws. Three-dimensional flows conserve energy and sign-indefinite helicity, both being transferred to small scales. Yet in 3D rotating turbulence, energy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Sébastien Gomé , Anna Frishman

We discuss a few recent developments that are important for understanding of MHD turbulence. First, MHD turbulence is not so messy as it is usually believed. In fact, the notion of strong non-linear coupling of compressible and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Lazarian , J. Cho

We present results from an asymptotic magnetohydrodynamic model that is suited for studying the rapidly rotating, low viscosity regime typical of the electrically conducting fluid interiors of planets and stars. We show that the presence of…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Stefano Maffei , Michael A. Calkins , Keith Julien , Philippe D. Marti

It is well known that the three-dimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations possess three magnetic invariants: (M) magnetic helicity, (C) cross helicity, and (P) the mean-square magnetic potential, in addition to the fundamental…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Naoki Sato , Ken Abe , Michio Yamada

This paper presents the results of the analysis of 3D simulations of solar magneto-convection that include the joint action of the ambipolar diffusion and the Hall effect. Three simulation-runs are compared: one including both ambipolar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 E. Khomenko , M. Collados , N. Vitas , P. A. Gonzalez-Morales

We derive the exact law for three-dimensional (3D) homogeneous compressible isothermal Hall magnetohydrodynamics (CHMHD) turbulence, without the assumption of isotropy. The Hall current is shown to introduce new flux and sources terms that…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Nahuel Andrés , Sébastien Galtier , Fouad Sahraoui

Dynamo action owing to helically forced turbulence and large-scale shear is studied using direct numerical simulations. The resulting magnetic field displays propagating wave-like behavior. This behavior can be modelled in terms of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg

We consider inverse problems related to the velocity reconstruction in electrically conducting fluids from externally measured magnetic fields. The underlying theory is presented in the framework of the integral equation approach to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Stefani , Thomas Gundrum , Gunter Gerbeth , Uwe Guenther , Mingtian Xu

The numerical studies of the interplanetary coupling between multiple magnetic clouds (MCs) are continued by a 2.5-dimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model in the heliospheric meridional plane. The interplanetary direct collision…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-03 Ming Xiong , Huinan Zheng , Shui Wang

We analyze the effect of the Hall term in the magnetohydrodynamic turbulence under a strong externally supported magnetic field, seeing how this changes the energy cascade, the characteristic scales of the flow and the dynamics of global…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 L. N. Martin , P. Dmitruk , D. O. Gomez

Shell models provide a simplified mathematical framework that captures essential features of incompressible fluid turbulence, such as the energy cascade and scaling of the fluid observables. We perform a precision analysis of the direct and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-19 James Creswell , Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Yaron Oz

We determine the magnetic helicity, along with the magnetic energy, at high latitudes using data from the Ulysses mission. The data set spans the time period from 1993 to 1996. The basic assumption of the analysis is that the solar wind is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Axel Brandenburg , Kandaswamy Subramanian , André Balogh , Melvyn L. Goldstein

We derive horizontal fluid motions on the solar surface over large areas covering the quiet-Sun magnetic network from local correlation tracking of convective granules imaged in continuum intensity and Doppler velocity by the Helioseismic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 C. R. Sangeetha , S. P. Rajaguru

Helicity is the scalar product between velocity and vorticity and, just like energy, its integral is an in-viscid invariant of the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. However, space-and time-discretization methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Francesco Capuano , Donato Vallefuoco

Magnetic helicity has risen to be a major player in dynamo theory, with the helicity of the small-scale field being linked to the dynamo saturation process for the large-scale field. It is a nearly conserved quantity, which allows its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-04 Alexander Hubbard , Axel Brandenburg

We present direct numerical simulations of the equations of compressible magnetohydrodynamics in a wedge-shaped spherical shell, without shear, but with random helical forcing which has negative (positive) helicity in the northern…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Dhrubaditya Mitra , Reza Tavakol , Petri J. Käpylä , Axel Brandenburg

In numerical studies of turbulence, hyperviscosity is often used as a tool to extend the inertial subrange and to reduce the dissipative subrange. By analogy, hyperdiffusivity (or hyperresistivity) is sometimes used in magnetohydrodynamics.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Axel Brandenburg , Graeme R. Sarson