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Circulation-dominated solar dynamo models, which employ a helioseismic rotation profile and a fixed meridional flow, give a good approximation to the large scale solar magnetic phenomena, such as the 11-year cycle or the so called Hale's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 G. A. Guerrero , J. D. Muñoz , E M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Solar "magnetic tornadoes" are produced by rotating magnetic field structures that extend from the upper convection zone and the photosphere to the corona of the Sun. Recent studies show that such rotating features are an integral part of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Yoshiaki Kato , Sven Wedemeyer

Magnetic buoyancy is believed to drive the transport of magnetic flux tubes from the convection zone to the surface of the Sun. The magnetic fields form twisted loop-like structures in the solar atmosphere. In this paper we use helical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-28 Jörn Warnecke , Axel Brandenburg

Jupiter and Saturn exhibit alternating east-west jet streams as seen from surface. The origin of these zonal flows has been debated for decades. The high-precision gravity measurements by Juno mission and the grand finale of Cassini mission…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 Shanshan Xue , Yufeng Lin

The present work discusses about a possible physical interpretation of the occurrence of turbulence in a dynamic fluid with mathematical modeling and computer simulation. Here turbulence is defined to be a phenomenon of random velocity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kaushik Majumdar

We present numerical results on dynamo action in a flow driven by an azimuthal body force localized near the end of an elongated cylindrical container. The analysis focuses on the central region of the cylinder, where axial variations in…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 I. Grants , J. Priede

For Sun-like stars, the generation of toroidal magnetic field from poloidal magnetic field is an essential piece of the dynamo mechanism powering their magnetism. Previous authors have estimated the net toroidal flux generated in each…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Adam J. Finley , Sacha A. Brun , Antoine Strugarek , Robert Cameron

Observations of sun-like stars rotating faster than our current sun tend to exhibit increased magnetic activity as well as magnetic cycles spanning multiple years. Using global simulations in spherical shells to study the coupling of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nicholas J. Nelson , Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

We present a new simple relativistic model for planetary motion describing accurately the anomalous precession of the perihelion of Mercury and its origin. The model is based on transforming Newton's classical equation for planetary motion…

General Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Y. Friedman , J. M. Steiner

Fluctuation dynamos provide a robust mechanism for amplifying weak seed magnetic fields in turbulent astrophysical plasmas. However, their behaviour in the highly compressible regimes characteristic of the interstellar medium remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Ameya Uday Nagdeo , Sharanya Sur , Bhargav Vaidya

A theoretical study on the interplay of frustrated skyrmion and magnons is useful for revealing new physics and future experiments design. In this work, we investigated the magnon-driven dynamics of frustrated skyrmion in synthetic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Z. Jin , Y. F. Hu , T. T. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. P. Hou , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

In numerical studies of turbulence, hyperviscosity is often used as a tool to extend the inertial subrange and to reduce the dissipative subrange. By analogy, hyperdiffusivity (or hyperresistivity) is sometimes used in magnetohydrodynamics.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Axel Brandenburg , Graeme R. Sarson

We report direct evidence of a secondary flow excited by the Earth rotation in a water-filled spherical container spinning at constant rotation rate. This so-called {\it tilt-over flow} essentially consists in a rotation around an axis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-15 J. Boisson , D. Cébron , F. Moisy , P. -P. Cortet

The magnetic fields of terrestrial planets are generated in their liquid cores through dynamo action driven by thermal and compositional convection. The coexistence of these two buoyancy sources gives rise to double-diffusive convection…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Wei Fan , Yufeng Lin

Surface observations indicate that the speed of the solar meridional circulation in the photosphere varies in anti-phase with the solar cycle. The current explanation for the source of this variation is that inflows into active regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 D. Passos , M. Miesch , G. Guerrero , P. Charbonneau

In this work, we aimed to replicate and extend the results presented in the DiffFluid paper[1]. The DiffFluid model showed that diffusion models combined with Transformers are capable of predicting fluid dynamics. It uses a denoising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yannick Gachnang , Vismay Churiwala

The flow inside a precessing fluid cavity has been given particular attention since the end of the 19th century in geophysical and industrial contexts. The present study aims at shedding light on the underlying mechanism by which the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yufeng Lin , Jerome Noir , Andrew Jackson

We review our current understanding of galactic dynamo theory, paying particular attention to numerical simulations both of the mean-field equations and the original three-dimensional equations relevant to describing the magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-12 Axel Brandenburg

In a previous paper, we have reported numerical simulations of the MHD flow driven by a travelling magnetic field (TMF) in an annular channel, at low Reynolds number. It was shown that the stalling of such induction pump is strongly related…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 Paola Rodriguez Imazio , Christophe Gissinger

The generation of mean flows is a long-standing issue in rotating fluids. Motivated by planetary objects, we consider here a rapidly rotating fluid-filled spheroid, which is subject to weak perturbations of either the boundary (e.g. tides)…