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Solar magnetic fields comprise an 11-year activity cycle, represented by the number of sunspots. The maintenance of such a solar magnetic field can be attributed to fluid motion in the convection zone, i.e. a dynamo. This study conducts the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Ryota Shimada , Hideyuki Hotta , Takaaki Yokoyama

We discuss the applicability of the kinematic $\alpha$-effect formalism at high magnetic Reynolds numbers. In this regime the underlying flow is likely to be a small-scale dynamo, leading to the exponential growth of fluctuations.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-17 F. Cattaneo , D. W. Hughes

We consider a variational model for magnetoelastic solids in the large-strain setting with the magnetization field defined on the unknown deformed configuration. Through a simultaneous linearization of the deformation and sharp-interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Marco Bresciani , Manuel Friedrich

Direct numerical simulations of turbulent Hall dynamos are presented. The evolution of an initially weak and small scale magnetic field in a system maintained in a stationary turbulent regime by a stirring force at a macroscopic scale is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. D. Mininni , D. O. Gómez , S. M. Mahajan

This paper demonstrates that intermittent magnetic field fluctuations in the plasma sheet exhibit transitory, localized, and multi-scale features. We propose a multifractal based algorithm, which quantifies intermittence on the basis of the…

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 origin of strong magnetic fields in the Universe can be explained by amplifying weak seed fields via turbulent motions on small spatial scales and subsequently transporting the magnetic energy to larger scales. This process is known as…

Using the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description, we develop a nonlinear dynamo model that couples the evolution of the large scale magnetic field with turbulent dynamics of the plasma at small scale by electromotive force (e.m.f.) in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 Giuseppina Nigro , Pierlugi Veltri

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

The influence of fluctuating conductivity on the coefficients known from the mean-field electrodynamics is considered. If the conductivity fluctuations are assumed as uncorrelated with the turbulent velocity field then only the effective…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 G. Rüdiger , M. Küker , P. J. Käpylä

We report the creation and real-space observation of magnetic structures with well-defined topological properties and a lateral size as low as about 150 nm. They are generated in a thin ferrimagnetic film by ultrashort single optical laser…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-06 M. Finazzi , M. Savoini , A. R. Khorsand , A. Tsukamoto , A. Itoh , L. Duò , A. Kirilyuk , Th. Rasing , M. Ezawa

The dilute Heisenberg ferromagnet is studied taking into account fluctuations of magnetization caused by disorder. A self-consistent system of equations for magnetization and its mean quadratic fluctuations is derived within the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 I. Vakarchuk , V. Tkachuk , T. Kuliy

We investigate the energy pathways between the velocity and the magnetic fields in a rotating plane layer dynamo driven by Rayleigh-B\'enard convection using direct numerical simulations. The kinetic and magnetic energies are divided into…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-20 Souvik Naskar , Anikesh Pal

The feasibility of a mean-field dynamo in nonhelical turbulence with superimposed linear shear is studied numerically in elongated shearing boxes. Exponential growth of magnetic field at scales much larger than the outer scale of the…

We use joint observations obtained with the Hinode space observatory and the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS) installed at the DST of the NSO/SP to investigate the morphology and dynamics of (a) non-magnetic and (b)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-18 F. Wöger , S. Wedemeyer-Böhm , T. Rimmele

We study magnetic field evolution in flows with fluctuating in time governing parameters in electrically conducting fluid. We use a standard mean-field approach to derive equations for large-scale magnetic field for the fluctuating ABC-flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , D. Sokoloff , D. Tomin

Several recent advances in turbulent dynamo theory are reviewed. High resolution simulations of small-scale and large-scale dynamo action in periodic domains are compared with each other and contrasted with similar results at low magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Axel Brandenburg , Dmitry Sokoloff , Kandaswamy Subramanian

We study a new type of large-scale instability, which arises in obliquely rotating stratified electroconductive fluid with an external uniform magnetic field and a small-scale external force having zero helicity. This force gives rise to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-06 M. I. Kopp , K. N. Kulik , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

We analyse the role of a fluctuating alpha-effect in alpha-omega dynamo models, and show that there is a mechanism for magnetic field generation, valid at large scale separation, deriving from the interaction of mean shear and a fluctuating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael R. E. Proctor

To characterize the magnetic field structure of the outflow and core region within a prototypical high-mass star-forming region, we analyzed polarized CO(3-2) - for the first time observed with the Submillimeter Array -- as well as 880mum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 H. Beuther , W. H. T. Vlemmings , R. Rao , F. F. S. van der Tak