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The first results of the solar dynamo model that allows for the diamagnetic effect of inhomogeneous turbulence and the nonlocal alpha-effect due to the rise of magnetic loops are discussed. The nonlocal alpha-effect is not subject to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 L. L. Kitchatinov , S. V. Olemskoy

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic buoyancy instability in rotating and non-rotating gas layers using numerical solutions of non-ideal, isothermal MHD equations. The unstable magnetic field is either imposed through the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Yasin Qazi , Anvar Shukurov , Devika Tharakkal , Frederick A. Gent

We study the possibility to reproduce the statistical relations of the sunspot activity cycle, like the so-called Waldmeier relations, the cycle period - amplitude and the cycle rise rate - amplitude relations, by means of the mean field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 V. V. Pipin , D. D. Sokoloff

Estimates for the nonlinear alpha effect in helical turbulence with an applied magnetic field are presented using two different approaches: the imposed-field method where the electromotive force owing to the applied field is used, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Hubbard , F. Del Sordo , P. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg

We study axisymmetric mean field spherical and spherical shell dynamo models, with both dynamic and algebraic $\alpha$--quenchings. Our results show that there are qualitative as well as quantitative differences and similarities between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eurico Covas , Reza Tavakol , Andrew Tworkowski , Axel Brandenburg

We explore effects of random non-axisymmetric perturbations of kinetic helicity (the $\alpha$ effect) and diffusive decay of bipolar magnetic regions on generation and evolution of large-scale non-axisymmetric magnetic fields on the Sun.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 V. V. Pipin , A. G. Kosovichev

Increasing observations are becoming available about a relatively weak, but persistent, non-axisymmetric magnetic field co-existing with the dominant axisymmetric field on the Sun. It indicates that the non-axisymmetric magnetic field plays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Jiang , J. X. Wang

Large-scale magnetic fields in stars and galaxies are thought to arise by mean-field dynamo action due to the combined influence of both helical turbulence and shear. Those systems are also highly conducting and the turbulence therein leads…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-22 Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian , Axel Brandenburg

Numerical experiments of dynamo action designed to understand the generation of Earth's magnetic field produce different regime branches identified within bifurcation diagrams. Notable are distinct branches where the resultant magnetic…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 Robert J. Teed , Emmanuel Dormy

We generalize the mean field magnetic dynamo to include local evolution of the mean vorticity in addition to the mean magnetic field. The coupled equations exhibit a general mean field dynamo instability that enables the transfer of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric G. Blackman , Tom Chou

Spectropolarimetric observations show that many low-mass stars possess large-scale poloidal magnetic fields with considerable dipole component, which in some cases exhibit temporal dynamics - cycles or reversals. Although it is widely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Anna Guseva , Ludovic Petitdemange , Charly Pinçon

Solar magnetic fields comprise an 11-year activity cycle, represented by the number of sunspots. The maintenance of such a solar magnetic field can be attributed to fluid motion in the convection zone, i.e. a dynamo. This study conducts the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Ryota Shimada , Hideyuki Hotta , Takaaki Yokoyama

We study in the present paper how Hall effect modifies the quenching process of the electromotive force (e.m.f.) in Mean Field Dynamo (MFD) theories. We write down the evolution equations for the e.m.f. and for the large and small scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Kandus , M. J. Vasconcelos , A. H. Cerqueira

We introduce on/off intermittency into a mean field dynamo model by imposing stochastic fluctuations in either the alpha effect or through the inclusion of a fluctuating electromotive force. Sufficiently strong small scale fluctuations with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-27 A. Brandenburg , E. A. Spiegel

In a recent paper (Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005), 184506; physics/0411050) it was shown that a simple mean-field dynamo model with a spherically symmetric helical turbulence parameter alpha can exhibit a number of features which are typical…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Stefani , Gunter Gerbeth , Uwe Guenther , Mingtian Xu

We discuss the dynamics of field configurations encoded in the certain class of electric (magnetic) dipole-charged states in the Proca theory of the real massive vector field. We construct such states so as to ensure that the long distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Bogdan Damski

The magnetic fields of spiral galaxies are so strong that they cannot be primordial. Their typical values are over one billion times higher than any value predicted for the early Universe. Explaining this immense growth and incorporating it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Evangelia Ntormousi , Konstantinos Tassis , Fabio Del Sordo , Francesca Fragkoudi , Rüdiger Pakmor

A numerical study of dynamos in rotating convecting plane layers is presented which focuses on magnetic energies and dissipation rates, and the generation of mean fields (where the mean is taken over horizontal planes). The scaling of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Tilgner

Using a one-dimensional $\alpha\omega$-dynamo model appropriate to galaxies, we study the possibility of dynamo action driven by a stochastic alpha effect and shear. To determine the field evolution, one needs to examine a large number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sharanya Sur , Kandaswamy Subramanian

A number of problems of solar and stellar dynamo theory are briefly reviewed and the current status of possible solutions is discussed. Results of direct numerical simulations are described in view of mean-field dynamo theory and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg