Eddy diffusivity in convective hydromagnetic systems

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2005-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0511020v3

Eur. Phys. J. B, 60, 2007, 337-351

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

18 pages. Added numerical reults. Submitted to European Physical Journal B

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2007-00351-8

An eigenvalue equation, for linear instability modes involving large scales in a convective hydromagnetic system, is derived in the framework of multiscale analysis. We consider a horizontal layer with electrically conducting boundaries, kept at fixed temperatures and with free surface boundary conditions for the velocity field; periodicity in horizontal directions is assumed. The steady states must be stable to short (fast) scale perturbations and possess symmetry about the vertical axis, allowing instabilities involving large (slow) scales to develop. We expand the modes and their growth rates in power series in the scale separation parameter and obtain a hierarchy of equations, which are solved numerically. Second order solvability condition yields a closed equation for the leading terms of the asymptotic expansions and respective growth rate, whose origin is in the (combined) eddy diffusivity phenomenon. For about 10% of randomly generated steady convective hydromagnetic regimes, negative eddy diffusivity is found.

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