Helical ${\alpha}$-dynamos as twisted magnetic flux tubes in Riemannian space
Abstract
Analytical solution of -dynamo equation representing strongly torsioned helical dynamo is obtained in the thin twisted Riemannian flux tubes approximation. The factor possesses a fundamental contribution from torsion which is however weaken in the thin tubes approximation. It is shown that assuming that the poloidal component of the magnetic field is in principle time-independent, the toroidal magnetic field component grows very fast in time, actually it possesses a linear time dependence, while the poloidal component grows under the influence of torsion or twist of the flux tube. The toroidal component decays spatially with as while vorticity may decay as (poloidal component) where r represents the radial distance from the magnetic axis of flux tube. Toroidal component of vorticity decays as . In turbulent dynamos unbounded magnetic fields may decay at least as .
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@article{arxiv.0712.3903,
title = {Helical ${\alpha}$-dynamos as twisted magnetic flux tubes in Riemannian space},
author = {Garcia de Andrade},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.3903},
year = {2007}
}
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Departamento de Fisica Teorica-IF-UERJ-Brasil