Electromagnetic turbulence driven by the mixed mode instability

Chaos in Turbulence Driven by the Magnetorotational Instability

Chaotic flow is studied in a series of numerical magnetohydrodynamical simulations that use the shearing box formalism. This mimics important features of local accretion disk dynamics. The magnetorotational instability gives rise to flow turbulence, and quantitative chaos parameters, such as the largest Lyapunov exponent, can be measured. Linear growth rates appear in these exponents even when ...

Coronal loop slow mode oscillations driven by the kink instability

Aims. To establish the dominant wave modes generated by an internal, m = 1 kink instability in a short coronal flux tube. Methods. The 3D MHD numerical simulations are performed using Lare3d to model the kink instability and the subsequent wave generation. The initial conditions are a straight, zero net current flux tube containing a twist higher than the kink instability threshold. Results. It...

Adaptive chromosomal divergence driven by mixed geographic mode of evolution.

Chromosomal inversions are ubiquitous in nature and of great significance for understanding adaptation and speciation. Inversions were the first markers used to investigate the genetic structure of natural populations, leading to the concept of coadapted gene complexes and theories concerning founder effects and genetic drift in small populations. However, we still lack elements of a general th...

Nonlinear stability and instability in collisionless trapped electron mode turbulence

A two-field model for collisionless trapped electron mode turbulence has both finite amplitude-induced stability and instability, depending on wave number. Effects usually identified with nonlinear plasma instability ~self-trapping, kinetics, 3D mode structure, magnetic shear! are absent. Nonlinear stability and instability reside in E3B advection of density. It drives modes of a purely damped ...

Mirror instability and L-mode electromagnetic ion cyclotron instability: Competition in the Earth's magnetosheath