Path integrals for mean-field equations in nonlinear dynamos
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2018-07-18 v2
Abstract
Mean-field dynamo equations are addressed with the aid of the path-integral method. The evolution of magnetic field is treated as a three-dimensional Wiener random process, and the mean magnetic-field equations are obtained with the Wiener integral over all the trajectories of fluid particle. The form of the equations is just the same as the conventional mean-field equations, but the present equations are derived with the velocity-field realization affected by the magnetic-field force. In this sense, the present ones are nonlinear dynamo equations.
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@article{arxiv.1802.02842,
title = {Path integrals for mean-field equations in nonlinear dynamos},
author = {Dmitry Sokoloff and Nobumitsu Yokoi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02842},
year = {2018}
}
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6 pages, 0 figures; submitted to Journal of Plasma Physics