Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-11-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
18 pages, 10 figures, accepted in GAFD Special Issue - Natural Dynamos
Scientific paper
We investigate the interaction of a fluctuating alpha-effect with large-scale shear in a simple nonlinear 1-dimensional dynamo wave model. We firstly extend the calculations of Proctor (2007, MNRAS, 41, L39-L42) to include spatial variation of the fluctuations, and find that there can be a mechanism for magnetic field generation, even when the mean alpha is zero, provided the spatiotemporal spectrum of the fluctuations has an appropriate form. We investigate mean-field dynamo action when the new term arising from the fluctuations is non-zero, and present results concerning the stability and frequency of the solutions and parity selection in the nonlinear regime. The relation between the asymptotic theory and explicit simulation of a traditional mean-field model with a fluctuating function for the alpha-effect term is discussed.
Proctor Michael R. E.
Richardson K. J.
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