Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-08-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 317, page 610 (1996)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
We investigate the behaviour of $\alpha\Omega$ dynamos with a dynamic $\alpha$, whose evolution is governed by the imbalance between a driving and a damping term. We focus on truncated versions of such dynamo models which are often studied in connection with solar and stellar variability. Given the approximate nature of such models, it is important to study how robust they are with respect to reasonable changes in the formulation of the driving and damping terms. For each case, we also study the effects of changes of the dynamo number and its sign, the truncation order and initial conditions. Our results show that changes in the formulation of the driving term have important consequences for the dynamical behaviour of such systems, with the detailed nature of these effects depending crucially on the form of the driving term assumed, the value and the sign of the dynamo number and the initial conditions. On the other hand, the change in the damping term considered here seems to produce little qualitative effect.
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