Astrophysical gyrokinetics: kinetic and fluid turbulent cascades in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas

AA Schekochihin, SC Cowley, W Dorland… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a theoretical framework for understanding plasma turbulence in
astrophysical plasmas. It is motivated by observations of electromagnetic and density …

Astrophysical turbulence modeling

A Brandenburg, Å Nordlund - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The role of turbulence in various astrophysical settings is reviewed. Among the differences
to laboratory and atmospheric turbulence we highlight the ubiquitous presence of magnetic …

MHD turbulence: a biased review

AA Schekochihin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This review of scaling theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence aims to put the
developments of the last few years in the context of the canonical time line (from Kolmogorov …

Incorporating kinetic physics into a two-fluid solar-wind model with temperature anisotropy and low-frequency Alfvén-wave turbulence

BDG Chandran, TJ Dennis, E Quataert… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a one-dimensional solar-wind model that includes separate energy equations
for the electrons and protons, proton temperature anisotropy, collisional and collisionless …

[PDF][PDF] MHD dynamos and turbulence

SM Tobias, F Cattaneo, S Boldyrev - arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.3138, 2011 - arxiv.org
Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the universe (Parker 1979, Zeldovich et al. 1983). Their
interaction with an electrically conducting fluid gives rise to a complex system–a …

Nonhelical inverse transfer of a decaying turbulent magnetic field

A Brandenburg, T Kahniashvili, AG Tevzadze - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
In the presence of magnetic helicity, inverse transfer from small to large scales is well known
in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and has applications in astrophysics …

Reflection-driven magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar atmosphere and solar wind

BDG Chandran, JC Perez - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2019 - cambridge.org
We present three-dimensional direct numerical simulations and an analytic model of
reflection-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the solar wind. Our simulations …

Anisotropy of Alfvénic turbulence in the solar wind and numerical simulations

CHK Chen, A Mallet, TA Yousef… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the anisotropy of Alfvénic turbulence in the inertial range of slow solar wind
and in both driven and decaying reduced magnetohydrodynamic simulations. A direct …

Role of cross-helicity in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

JC Perez, S Boldyrev - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
Strong incompressible three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is investigated
by means of high-resolution direct numerical simulations. The simulations show that the …

Spectral scaling laws in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence simulations and in the solar wind

S Boldyrev, JC Perez, JE Borovsky… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The question is addressed as to what extent incompressible magnetohydrodynamics can
describe random magnetic and velocity fluctuations measured in the solar wind. It is …