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Context: Convectively-driven flows play a crucial role in the dynamo processes that are responsible for producing magnetic activity in stars and planets. It is still not fully understood why many astrophysical magnetic fields have a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 P. J. Bushby , P. J. Käpylä , Y. Masada , A. Brandenburg , B. Favier , C. Guervilly , M. J. Käpylä

We present the first results from three-dimensional spherical shell simulations of magnetic dynamo action realized by turbulent convection penetrating downward into a tachocline of rotational shear. This permits us to assess several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Matthew Browning , Mark S. Miesch , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

We investigate numerically magnetic field generation by thermal convection with square periodicity cells in a rotating horizontal layer of electrically-conducting fluid with stress-free electrically perfectly conducting boundaries for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-04-12 V. Zheligovsky

When stars like our Sun are young they rotate rapidly and are very magnetically active. We explore dynamo action in rapidly rotating suns with the 3-D MHD anelastic spherical harmonic (ASH) code. The magnetic fields built in these dynamos…

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

We discuss recent advances made in modelling the complex magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun using our anelastic spherical harmonics (ASH) code. We have conducted extensive 3--D simulations of compressible convection in rotating spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

The use of machine learning to represent subgrid-scale (SGS) dynamics is now well established in weather forecasting and climate modelling. Recent advances have demonstrated that SGS models trained via ``online'' end-to-end learning --…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-19 Hugo Frezat , Thomas Gastine , Alexandre Fournier

A three-dimensional numerical computation of magnetohydrodynamic dynamo behavior is described. The dynamo is mechanically forced with a driving term of the Taylor-Green type. The magnetic field development is followed from negligibly small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. D. Mininni , Y. Ponty , D. C. Montgomery , J. -F. Pinton , H. Politano , A. Pouquet

Star-forming dwarf galaxies can be seen as the local proxies of the high-redshift building blocks of more massive galaxies according to the current paradigm of the hierarchical galaxy formation. They are low-mass objects, and therefore…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 H. Siejkowski , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Soida , D. J. Bomans , M. Hanasz

Increasing evidence is becoming available about not only the surface differential rotation of rapidly rotating cool stars but, in a small number of cases, also about temporal variations, which possibly are analogous to the solar torsional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Covas , D. Moss , R. Tavakol

We consider quasi-geostrophic (Q-G) models in two- and three-layers that are useful in theoretical studies of planetary atmospheres and oceans. In these models, the streamfunctions are given by (1+2) partial differen- tial systems of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Sameerah Jamal

Recent observations indicate that fully convective stars can effectively build magnetic fields without the aid of a tachocline of shear, that those fields can possess large-scale components, and that they may sense the effects of rotation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthew Browning , Gibor Basri

Dynamo action in the Earth's outer core is expected to be controlled by a balance between pressure, Coriolis, buoyancy and Lorentz forces, with marginal contributions from inertia and viscous forces. Current numerical simulations of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-05-14 T. Schwaiger , T. Gastine , J. Aubert

Despite the lack of a shear-rich tachocline region low-mass fully convective stars are capable of generating strong magnetic fields, indicating that a dynamo mechanism fundamentally different from the solar dynamo is at work in these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Rakesh K. Yadav , Ulrich R. Christensen , Julien Morin , Thomas Gastine , Ansgar Reiners , Katja Poppenhaeger , Scott J. Wolk

A series of numerical simulations of the dynamo process operating inside gas giant planets has been performed. We use an anelastic, fully nonlinear, three-dimensional, benchmarked MHD code to evolve the flow, entropy and magnetic field. Our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-11 Wieland Dietrich , Chris. A. Jones

Convection in the liquid outer core of the Earth is driven by thermal and chemical perturbations. The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of double-diffusive convection on magnetic field generation by means of 3D global…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Théo Tassin , Thomas Gastine , Alexandre Fournier

Regions of quiet Sun generally exhibit a complex distribution of small-scale magnetic field structures, which interact with the near-surface turbulent convective motions. Furthermore, it is probable that some of these magnetic fields are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Paul J. Bushby , Benjamin Favier

Core convection and dynamo activity deep within rotating A-type stars of 2 solar masses are studied with 3--D nonlinear simulations. Our modeling considers the inner 30% by radius of such stars, thus capturing within a spherical domain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Sacha Brun , Matthew K. Browning , Juri Toomre

We assess the global-scale dynamo action achieved in a simulation of a sun-like star rotating at three times the solar rate. The 3-D MHD Anelastic Spherical Harmonic code, using slope-limited diffusion, is employed to capture convection and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-01 Kyle Augustson , Allan Sacha Brun , Mark Steven Miesch , Juri Toomre

Large-scale magnetic fields are relevant for a number of dynamical processes in accretion disks, including driving turbulence, reconnection events, and launching outflows. Numerical simulations have indicated that the initial strengths and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Hongzhe Zhou , Yosuke Mizuno , Zhenyu Zhu

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