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The existence of a dynamo effect in a simplified magnetohydrodynamic model of turbulence is considered when the magnetic Prandtl number approaches zero or infinity. The magnetic field is interacting with an incompressible…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Heikki Arponen , Peter Horvai

The growth and saturation of magnetic field in conducting turbulent media with large magnetic Prandtl numbers are investigated. This regime is very common in low-density hot astrophysical plasmas. During the early (kinematic) stage, weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , G. W. Hammett , J. L. Maron , J. C. McWilliams

A dynamo model is presented, based on a previously introduced kinematic model, in which the reaction of the magnetic field on the mass flow through the Lorentz force is included. Given the base mass flow corresponding to the case with no…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 Laura Sraibman , Fernando Minotti

This paper is concerned with the vanishing viscosity and magnetic resistivity limit for the two-dimensional steady incompressible MHD system on the half plane with no-slip boundary condition on velocity field and perfectly conducting wall…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Cheng-Jie Liu , Tong Yang , Zhu Zhang

We study mean-field dynamo action in a background linear shear flow by employing pulsed renewing flows with fixed kinetic helicity and nonzero correlation time ($\tau$). We use plane shearing waves in terms of time-dependent exact solutions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Naveen Jingade , Nishant K. Singh

We consider fluctuations of magnetic field excited by external force and advected by isotropic turbulent flow. It appears that non-Gaussian velocity gradient statistics and finite region of pumping force provide the existence of stationary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-26 A. S. Il'yn , A. V. Kopyev , V. A. Sirota , K. P. Zybin

The problem of the dynamo effect for a Kraichnan incompressible helicity-free velocity field is considered. Exploiting a quantum formalism first introduced by Kazantsev (A.P. Kazantsev, Sov. Phys. JETP 26, 1031-1034 (1968)), we show that a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Vincenzi

The present paper is based on our graduate lectures in condensed-matter physics. We found that the mean-field solution of the Hubbard model is an excellent tool to stimulate students' reflections towards the treatment of realistic magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-27 Yann Claveau , Brice Arnaud , Sergio Di Matteo

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

Several one and two dimensional mean field models are analyzed where the effects of current helicity fluxes and boundaries are included within the framework of the dynamical quenching model. In contrast to the case with periodic boundary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Neutron stars, and magnetars in particular, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. The origin of these strong fields is a matter of controversy. In this preliminary work, via numerical simulations, we study, for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-30 K. Franceschetti , L. Del Zanna

We combine simulations with new analyses that overcome previous pitfalls to explicate how nonhelical mean-field dynamos grow and saturate in unstratified, magnetorotationally driven turbulence. Shear of the mean radial magnetic field…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Tushar Mondal , Pallavi Bhat , Fatima Ebrahimi , Eric G. Blackman

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 derive a new shell model of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in which the energy transfers are not necessary local. Like the original MHD equations, the model conserves the total energy, magnetic helicity, cross-helicity and volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 F. Plunian , R. Stepanov

We investigate the dynamical stability of a fully-coupled system of $N$ inertial rotators, the so-called Hamiltonian Mean Field model. In the limit $N \to \infty$, and after proper scaling of the interactions, the $\mu$-space dynamics is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Celia Anteneodo , Raul O. Vallejos

The transition to intermittent mean--field dynamos is studied using numerical simulations of isotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence driven by a helical flow. The low-Prandtl number regime is investigated by keeping the kinematic viscosity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Erico L. Rempel , Michael R. E. Proctor , Abraham C. -L. Chian

The small-scale dynamo is typically studied by assuming that the correlation time of the velocity field is zero. Some authors have used a smooth renovating flow model to study how the properties of the dynamo are affected by the correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 Kishore Gopalakrishnan , Nishant K Singh

Context. The recently developed test-field method permits to compute dynamo coefficients from global, direct numerical simulations. The subsequent use of these parameters in mean-field models enables us to compare self-consistent dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Schrinner

The theory of large scale dynamos is reviewed with particular emphasis on the magnetic helicity constraint in the presence of closed and open boundaries. In the presence of closed or periodic boundaries, helical dynamos respond to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Brandenburg , W. Dobler , K. Subramanian

The kinetic theory of soliton gases (SG) is used to develop a solvable model for wave-mean field interaction in integrable turbulence. The waves are stochastic soliton ensembles that scatter off a critically dense SG or soliton condensate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-18 T. Congy , G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer