Strong mean field dynamos require supercritical helicity fluxes

Details Strong mean field dynamos require supercritical helicity fluxes Strong mean field dynamos require supercritical helicity fluxes

2005-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505457v2

Astron.Nachr. 326 (2005) 400-408

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Astron. Nachr

Scientific paper

10.1002/asna.200510362

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 conditions, the final saturation energy of the mean field decreases inversely proportional to the magnetic Reynolds number. If a nondimensional scaling factor in the current helicity flux exceeds a certain critical value, the dynamo can operate even without kinetic helicity, i.e. it is based only on shear and current helicity fluxes, as first suggested by Vishniac & Cho (2001, ApJ 550, 752). Only above this threshold is the current helicity flux also able to alleviate catastrophic quenching. The fact that certain turbulence simulations have now shown apparently non-resistively limited mean field saturation amplitudes may be suggestive of the current helicity flux having exceeded this critical value. Even below this critical value the field still reaches appreciable strength at the end of the kinematic phase, which is in qualitative agreement with dynamos in periodic domains. However, for large magnetic Reynolds numbers the field undergoes subsequent variations on a resistive time scale when, for long periods, the field can be extremely weak.

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