Suppression of small scale dynamo action by an imposed magnetic field

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2004-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402281v3

Phys.Rev. E70 (2004) 036408

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Final version (7 pages)

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10.1103/PhysRevE.70.036408

Non-helical hydromagnetic turbulence with an externally imposed magnetic field is investigated using direct numerical simulations. It is shown that the imposed magnetic field lowers the spectral magnetic energy in the inertial range. This is explained by a suppression of the small scale dynamo. At large scales, however, the spectral magnetic energy increases with increasing imposed field strength for moderately strong fields, and decreases only slightly for even stronger fields. The presence of Alfven waves is explicitly confirmed by monitoring the evolution of magnetic field and velocity at one point. The frequency omega agrees with vA k1, where vA is the Alfven speed and k1 is the smallest wavenumber in the box.

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