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We analyze the spectral properties of driven, supersonic compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence obtained via high-resolution numerical experiments, for application to understanding the dynamics of giant molecular clouds. Via…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jason G. Vestuto , Eve C. Ostriker , James M. Stone

This paper presents a global stability result on perturbations near a background magnetic field to the 2D incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with only magnetic diffusion on the periodic domain. The stability result provides…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Xiaoping Zhai

The dynamics of the two-dimensional (2D) state in driven tridimensional (3D) incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is investigated through high-resolution direct numerical simulations and in the presence of an external magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Barbara Bigot , Sebastien Galtier

Following the previous work of Ferretti and Yang on the role of magnetic fields in the theory of conformal turbulence, we show that non-unitary minimal model solutions to 2-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) obtained by dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Omduth Coceal , Steven Thomas

The paper contains the original mathematical model that describes the incompressible electrically conducting fluid flows under the influence of the electromagnetic field - quasi-magneto-hydrodynamic (QMHD) equation system. Simplified…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. G. Elizarova , I. S. Kalachinskaya , Yu. V. Sheretov , I. A. Shirokov

Solar magnetic fields comprise an 11-year activity cycle, represented by the number of sunspots. The maintenance of such a solar magnetic field can be attributed to fluid motion in the convection zone, i.e. a dynamo. This study conducts the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Ryota Shimada , Hideyuki Hotta , Takaaki Yokoyama

The fundamental difference between incompressible ideal magnetohydrodynamics and the dynamics of a non-conducting fluid is that magnetic fields exert a tension force that opposes their bending; magnetic fields behave like elastic strings…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 D. N. Hosking , A. A. Schekochihin , S. A. Balbus

A hydrodynamic-type, macroscopic theory was set up recently to simultaneously account for dissipation and dispersion of electromagnetic field, in nonstationary condensed systems of nonlinear constitutive relations~\cite{JL}. Since it was…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yimin Jiang , Mario Liu

Presented here is a novel formulation of the mean-field dynamo as a modulational instability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. This formulation, termed mean-field wave kinetics (MFWK), is based on the Weyl symbol calculus and allows…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 S. Jin , I. Y. Dodin

This paper explores plasma wave modes using the extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) model, incorporating Hall drift and electron inertia effects. We utilize the geometric optics ansatz to study perturbed quantities, with a focus on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Noura E. Shorba , Abeer A. Mahmoud , Hamdi M. Abdelhamid

We present a new way of deriving effective theories of dynamical electromagnetic fields in general media. It can be used to give a systematic formulation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with strong magnetic fields, including systems with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Michael J. Landry , Hong Liu

Supersonic turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is believed to decay rapidly within a flow crossing time irrespective of the degree of magnetization. However, this general consensus of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-10 Chang-Goo Kim , Shantanu Basu

We consider the accretion process in a disk with magnetic fields that are dragged in from the interstellar medium by gravitational collapse. Two diffusive processes are at work in the system: (1) "viscous" torques exerted by turbulent and…

Recent progress regarding the noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation of extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD), a model with Hall drift and electron inertia, is summarized. The advantages of the Hamiltonian approach are invoked to study some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 George Miloshevich , Manasvi Lingam , Philip J. Morrison

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 consider the electron magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the context where the 3D magnetic field depends only on the two horizontal plane variables. In particular, the magnetic field takes the form $B=\nabla\times (a\vec e_z)+b\vec e_z$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Mimi Dai

We study a simple magnetohydrodynamical approach in which hydrodynamics and MHD turbulence are coupled in a shell model, with given dynamo constrains in the large scales. We consider the case of a low Prandtl number fluid for which the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Roberto Benzi , Jean-Francois Pinton

We present numerical simulations of the growth and saturation of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a compressible fluid layer with and without a weak magnetic field. In the absence of a magnetic field, the instability generates a single…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. L. Palotti , F. Heitsch , E. G. Zweibel , Y. -M. Huang

The recent imaging of the M87 black hole at millimeter wavelengths by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has triggered a renewed interest in numerical models for the accretion of magnetized plasma in the regime of general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Tomei , L. Del Zanna , M. Bugli , N. Bucciantini

We study the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence taking into account the chiral anomaly effect. This chiral magnetohydrodynamic description of the plasma is expected to be relevant for temperatures comparable to the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-23 Petar Pavlović , Günter Sigl