A growing dynamo from a saturated Roberts flow dynamo

Details A growing dynamo from a saturated Roberts flow dynamo A growing dynamo from a saturated Roberts flow dynamo

2008-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/0808.2141v2

Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 391, 1477-1481 (2008)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14006.x

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 that would produce a Roberts flow in the absence of a magnetic field. This result confirms an analogous finding by F. Cattaneo & S. M. Tobias (arXiv:0809.1801) for the more complicated case of turbulent convection, suggesting that this may be a common property of nonlinear dynamos; see also the talk given also online at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/dynamo_c08/cattaneo). It is argued that this property can be used to test nonlinear mean-field dynamo theories.

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