Nonlinear dynamo action in a precessing cylindrical container
Fluid Dynamics
2015-03-18 v1 Geophysics
Abstract
It is numerically demonstrated by means of a magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code that precession can trigger the dynamo effect in a cylindrical container. This result adds credit to the hypothesis that precession can be strong enough to be one of the sources of the dynamo action in some astrophysical bodies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1102.1846,
title = {Nonlinear dynamo action in a precessing cylindrical container},
author = {C. Nore and J. Léorat and J. -L. Guermond and F. Luddens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.1846},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures including subfigures