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It is shown, that the saturated $\alpha$-effect taken from the nonlinear dynamo equations for the thin disk can still produce exponentially growing magnetic field in the case, when this field does not feed back on the $\alpha$. For negative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Reshetnyak

Magnetic field amplification by a fast dynamo is seen in local box simulations of SN-driven ISM turbulence, where the self-consistent emergence of large-scale fields agrees very well with its mean-field description. We accordingly derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-25 Detlef Elstner , Oliver Gressel

We propose and analyze a new method for the unsteady incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations on convex domains with hybrid approximations of both vector-valued and scalar-valued fields. The proposed method is convection-semirobust,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jerome Droniou , Vito Patierno

A simple stochastic model of solute drag by moving grain boundaries (GBs) is presented. Using a small number of parameters, the model describes solute interactions with GBs and captures nonlinear GB dynamics, solute saturation in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-03 Y. Mishin

We consider the kinematic stage of evolution of magnetic field advected by turbulent hydrodynamic flow. We use a generalization of the Kazantsev-Kraichnan model to investigate time irreversible flows. In the viscous range of scales, the…

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

We present an MHD shell model suitable for computation of various energy fluxes of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence for very small and very large magnetic Prandtl numbers $\mathrm{Pm}$; such computations are inaccessible to direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Mahendra K. Verma , Rohit Kumar

Nonlinear mean-field models of the solar dynamo show long-term variability, which may be relevant to different states of activity inferred from long-term radiocarbon data. This paper is aimed to probe the dynamo hysteresis predicted by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-24 Bidya Binay Karak , Leonid L. Kitchatinov , Axel Brandenburg

Using direct numerical simulations (DNS) we verify that in the kinematic regime, a turbulent helical dynamo grows in such a way that the magnetic energy spectrum remains to high precision shape-invariant, i.e., at each wavenumber $k$ the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-24 Kandaswamy Subramanian , Axel Brandenburg

Mean field dynamos may explain the origin of large scale magnetic fields of galaxies, but controversy arises over the extent of dynamo quenching by the growing field. Here we explain how apparently conflicting results may be mutually…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric G. Blackman , George B. Field

A generalized mean magnetic field induction equation for differential rotators is derived, including a compressibility, and the anisotropy induced on the turbulent quantities from the mean magnetic field itself and a mean velocity shear.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric G. Blackman

We re-examine the nature of the turbulent magnetic diffusivity tensor of mean field electrodynamics and show that an inconsistency arises if it is calculated via consideration of time-independent magnetic fields. Specifically, the predicted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-14 David W. Hughes , Michael R. E. Proctor

A mean-field Fokker-Planck equation approach to the dynamics of ferrofluids in the presence of a magnetic field and velocity gradients is proposed that incorporates magnetic dipole-dipole interactions of the colloidal particles. The model…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Patrick Ilg , Siegfried Hess

In this paper we provide the existence of classical solutions to stationary mean field game systems in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$, with coercive potential, aggregating local coupling, and under general conditions on the Hamiltonian,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Annalisa Cesaroni , Marco Cirant

We study semi-analytically and in a consistent manner, the generation of a mean velocity field $\bar{\mathbf{U}}$ by helical MHD turbulence, and the effect that this field can have on a Mean Field Dynamo. Assuming a prescribed, maximally…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alejandra Kandus

We consider the continuous version of the Vicsek model with noise, proposed as a model for collective behavior of individuals with a fixed speed. We rigorously derive the kinetic mean-field partial differential equation satisfied when the…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-06 François Bolley , José A. Cañizo , José A. Carrillo

We consider the linear stability of two-dimensional nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic basic states to long-wavelength three-dimensional perturbations. Following Hughes & Proctor (2009a), the 2D basic states are obtained from a specific forcing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-31 A. Courvoisier , D. W. Hughes , M. R. E. Proctor

Our attention focuses on the stochastic dynamo equation with non-normal operator that give an insight into the role of stochastics and non-normality in the galactic magnetic field generation. The main point of this Letter is a discussion of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei Fedotov

Local shearing box simulations of stratified magneto rotational turbulence invariably exhibit cyclic field patterns which propagate away from the disc midplane. A common explanation for this is magnetic buoyancy. The recent analysis by Shi…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Oliver Gressel

We use a Hamiltonian interacting particle system to derive a stochastic mean field system whose McKean-Vlasov equation yields the incompressible Navier Stokes equation. Since the system is Hamiltonian, the particle relabeling symmetry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-05 Simon Hochgerner

The violent relaxation and the metastable states of the Hamiltonian Mean-Field model, a paradigmatic system of long-range interactions, is studied using a Hamiltonian formalism. Rigorous results are derived algebraically for the time…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-29 Romain Bachelard , Cristel Chandre , Antonia Ciani , Duccio Fanelli , Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi