Cosmic ray and plasma coupling for isothermal supersonic turbulence in the magnetized interstellar medium
It is hard to make a relativistic cosmic ray fluid couple to the plasma! (lead author: Matt Sampson)
Jun 4, 2025
Fundamental MHD scales -- II: the kinematic phase of the supersonic small-scale dynamo
The supersonic turbulent dynamo, relevant to the cold ISM and thin accretion disks, is very different from the incompressible Kazanstev theory. (lead author: Neco Kriel)
Jan 31, 2025
Growth or Decay - I: universality of the turbulent dynamo saturation
The saturation of the turbulent dynamo is universal to the initial seed magnetic field!
Sep 1, 2023
Turbulent diffusion of streaming cosmic rays in compressible, partially ionized plasma
Feb 1, 2023
The density distribution and physical origins of intermittency in supersonic, highly magnetized turbulence with diverse modes of driving
The mass density distribution function of supersonic turbulence is approximately lognormal. Here we review some of the most popular nonlognormal models.
Dec 1, 2022
Availability, outage, and capacity of spatially correlated, Australasian free-space optical networks
We develop an optimal Australasian free space optical communication network and probe the statistics of the network using simulated satellite links. (lead author: Marcus Birch)
Nov 1, 2022
Magnetized compressible turbulence with a fluctuation dynamo and Reynolds numbers over a million
The results from the world's largest MHD turbulence simulation are on the arXiv -- everything from cascades, scale-dependent alignment, to anisotropy and plasmoid instabilities.
Oct 1, 2022
Energy balance and Alfvén Mach numbers in compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with a large-scale magnetic field
Oct 1, 2022
Fundamental scales in the kinematic phase of the turbulent dynamo
Jul 1, 2022
A multishock model for the density variance of anisotropic, highly magnetized, supersonic turbulence
Jul 1, 2021