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In mean-field magnetohydrodynamics the mean electromotive force due to velocity and magnetic field fluctuations plays a crucial role. In general it consists of two parts, one independent of and another one proportional to the mean magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-03 K. -H. Rädler , A. Brandenburg

The excitation and further sustenance of large-scale magnetic fields in rotating astrophysical systems, including planets, stars and galaxies, is generally thought to involve a fluid magnetic dynamo effect driven by helical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-10 F. Rincon

By following the Kazantsev theory and taking into account both microscopic and turbulent diffusion of magnetic fields, we develop a unified treatment of the kinematic and nonlinear stages of turbulent dynamo, and study the dynamo process…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Siyao Xu , A. Lazarian

Motivated by the problem of the formation of active regions from a deep-seated solar magnetic field, we consider the nonlinear three-dimensional evolution of magnetic buoyancy instabilities resulting from a smoothly stratified horizontal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Evy Kersale , David W. Hughes , Steven M. Tobias

The nonlinear dynamics of magnetic helicity, $H^M$, which is responsible for large-scale magnetic structure formation in electrically conducting turbulent media is investigated in forced and decaying three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Wolf-Christian Müller , Shiva Kumar Malapaka , Angela Busse

The influence of initially given small scale magnetic energy($E_M(0)$) and helicity($H_M(0)$) on the magnetohydrodynamics(MHD) dynamo was investigated. Equations for $E_M$(t), $H_M$(t), and electromotive force($\langle {\bf v}\times {\bf…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-03 Kiwan Park

A gauge invariant and hence physically meaningful definition of magnetic helicity density for random fields is proposed, using the Gauss linking formula, as the density of correlated field line linkages. This definition is applied to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Kandaswamy Subramanian , Axel Brandenburg

Using direct simulations, weakly nonlinear theory and nonlinear mean-field theory, it is shown that the quenched velocity field of a saturated nonlinear dynamo can itself act as a kinematic dynamo. The flow is driven by a forcing function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-21 Andreas Tilgner , Axel Brandenburg

(Abridged) Based on the rapidly increasing all-sky data of Faraday rotation measures and polarised synchrotron radiation, the Milky Way's magnetic field is now modelled with an unprecedented level of detail and complexity. We aim to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Oliver Gressel , Detlef Elstner , Udo Ziegler

Magnetic helicity is nearly conserved and its evolution equation provides a dynamical feedback on the alpha effect that is distinct from the conventional algebraic alpha quenching. The seriousness of this dynamical alpha quenching is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 A. Brandenburg

Numerical simulations of forced turbulence in elongated shearing boxes are carried out to demonstrate that a nonhelical turbulence in conjunction with a linear shear can give rise to a mean-field dynamo. Exponential growth of magnetic field…

The paper deals with a simple spherical mean-field dynamo model of $\alpha^2$-type in the case of high electrical conductivity. A spherically symmetric distribution of turbulent motions is assumed inside a spherical fluid body surrounded by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. -H. Raedler , U. Geppert

We demonstrate that the inclusion of the helicity flux in the magnetic helicity balance in the nonlinear stage of galactic dynamo action results in a radical change in the magnetic field dynamics. The equilibrium value of the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kleeorin , D. Moss , I. Rogachevskii , D. Sokoloff

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) replaces the many-body dynamical problem with one for a single degree of freedom in a thermal bath whose features are determined self-consistently. By focusing on models with soft disordered $p$-spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-02 Ada Altieri , Giulio Biroli , Chiara Cammarota

This article introduces a novel mean-field game model for multi-sector economic growth in which a dynamically evolving externality, influenced by the collective actions of agents, plays a central role. Building on classical growth theories…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Pierre Lavigne , Quentin Petit , Xavier Warin

This pedagogical note revisits the concept of electromagnetic helicity in classical systems. In particular, magnetic helicity and its role in mean field dynamo theories is briefly discussed highlighting the major mathematical inconsistency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-17 Amir Jafari

We analyze direct numerical simulations of large-scale dynamos in inhomogeneous nonhelically driven rotating turbulence with and without shear. The forcing is modulated so that the turbulent intensity peaks in the middle of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Axel Brandenburg , Ethan T. Vishniac

We investigate magnetic field amplification in a turbulent velocity field with nonzero helicity, in the framework of the kinematic Kazantsev-Kraichnan model. We present the numerical solution of the model for the practically important case…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Leonid Malyshkin , Stanislav Boldyrev

The small-scale kinematic dynamo in a two-dimensional chaotic flow is studied. The analytic approach is developed in framework of the Kraichnan-Kazantsev model. It is shown that the growth of magnetic field $\bm{B}$ fluctuations stops at…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-30 Igor Kolokolov

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