Introduction Fast particles, such as fusion-born alphas and energetic ions from external heating, are important in ITER for two primary reasons: 1) They are responsible for self-sustained heating and current drive. 2) They constitute a significant energy source in the plasma and, therefore, pose a potential risk to the material structures. In this work we study how magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) ins...

Numerical simulations of two-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic (2D MHD) turbulence reveal the presence of a huge number of sites where magnetic reconnection locally occurs. The properties of this ensemble of reconnection events, that are spontaneously generated by turbulence, have been studied. The associated reconnection rates, computed as the electric field at the neutral points, are broadly di...

In the present article, we have studied the effects of heat transfer on a peristaltic flow of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Newtonian fluid in a porous concentric horizontal tube (an application of an endoscope). The problem under consideration is formulated under the assumptions of long wavelength and neglecting the wave number. A closed form of Adomian solutions and numerical solutions are pres...

We show that dwarf nova disks in quiescence have rather low magnetic Reynolds number, of order 10. Numerical simulations of magnetized accretion disks suggest that under these conditions magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and the associated angular momentum transport is sharply reduced. This could be the physical origin of episodic accretion in dwarf nova disks. If so, the standard disk instability...

A uniqueness result for a parabolic partial differential equation with hysteresis and convection is established. This equation is a part of a model system which describes the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a conducting fluid between two ferromagnetic plates. The result of this paper complements the content of [6], where existence of the solution has been proved under fairly general assumptio...

Influence of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow between two parallel disks is considered. Heat transfer analysis is disclosed due to thermal radiation and convective boundary condition. Appropriate transformations are invoked to obtain the ordinary differential system. This system is solved using homotopic approach. Convergence of the obtained solution is discussed. Variations of embedded parameter...

A steady three-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer viscous flow and heat transfer due to a permeable stretching sheet with prescribed surface heat flux is studied in presence of a uniform applied magnetic field transverse to the flow. Using the implicit finite-difference scheme, known as the Keller-box method, the nonlinear ordinary differential equations are solved. The veloci...

We present numerical simulations of electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) and electron reduced MHD (ERMHD) turbulence. Comparing scaling relations, we find that both EMHD and ERMHD turbulence show similar spectra and anisotropy. We develop new techniques to study anisotropy of EMHD turbulence. Our detailed study of anisotropy of EMHD turbulence supports our earlier result of k‖ ∝ k ⊥ scaling, whe...

Context. Oscillations in coronal loops are usually interpreted in terms of uncoupled magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Examples of these waves are standing transverse motions, interpreted as the kink MHD modes, and propagating slow modes, commonly reported at the loop footpoints. Aims. Here we study a simple system in which fast and slow MHD waves are coupled. The goal is to understand the finge...

The magnetohydrodynamic MHD and rotating flow of second-grade fluid over a suddenly moved flat plate is investigated, where the second-grade fluid saturates the porous medium. The new exact solution is derived by using the Fourier sine and Laplace transforms. Many interesting available results in the literature are obtained as limiting cases of our solution. Finally, some graphical results are ...