Penders, Sam2019-10-212019-10-212019https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208554Results from a high–resolution, turbulent, magnetohydrodynamics simulatation, with conditions that mimic those of a galaxy cluster plasma, are analyzed to determine the source of magnetic field filamentation. Although this simulation does not explicitly model resistive contributions to magnetic field growth, it was determined that numerical energy dissipation is approximately equal in magnitude and opposite in sign to magnetic energy growth predicted by ideal magnetohydrodynamics. Resistive energy dissipation is therefore essential to magnetic field filamentation.enSumma Cum LaudeCollege of Science and EngineeringPhysicsThesis or Dissertation