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Universal Nonlinear Small-Scale Dynamo

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-05-30 v1 Fluid Dynamics Geophysics Plasma Physics Space Physics

Abstract

We consider astrophysically relevant nonlinear MHD dynamo at large Reynolds numbers (Re). We argue that it is universal in a sense that magnetic energy grows at a rate which is a constant fraction C_E of the total turbulent dissipation rate. On the basis of locality bounds we claim that this "efficiency of small-scale dynamo", C_E, is a true constant for large Re and is determined only by strongly nonlinear dynamics at the equipartition scale. We measured C_E in numerical simulations and observed a value around 0.05 in highest resolution simulations. We address the issue of C_E being small, unlike Kolmogorov constant which is of order unity.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1109.4644,
  title  = {Universal Nonlinear Small-Scale Dynamo},
  author = {Andrey Beresnyak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4644},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages 3 figures

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