MHD turbulence

2019/09/10 by Andrey Beresnyak · 1 voice · 66 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Magnetohydrodynamics #Mechanics #Nuclear physics #Physics #Plasma #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Turbulence #astro-ph.GA #astro-ph.SR #physics.flu-dyn #physics.plasm-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s41115-019-0005-8

published in Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics 5(1) (Springer Science+Business Media) · 58 pages, 37 figures

openalex publication_date 2019/09/10 · arxiv created 2019/10/08 · arxiv published 2019/10/08 · arxiv updated 2019/10/10 · openalex created_date 2019/10/18 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Abstract We review the current status of research in MHD turbulence theory and numerical experiments and their applications to astrophysics and solar science. We introduce general tools for studying turbulence, basic turbulence models, MHD equations and their wave modes. Subsequently, we cover the theories and numerics of Alfvénic turbulence, imbalanced turbulence, small-scale dynamos and models and numerics for supersonic MHD turbulence.

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Cited by

• High-energy Particle Transport in Three-dimensional Anisotropic Turbulent Magnetic Fields
• Foundations of magnetohydrodynamics

Discussions

• MHD turbulence in astrophysics, a review by Beresnyak https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03585 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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