Numerical study of homogeneous dynamo based on experimental von Karman type flows

Details Numerical study of homogeneous dynamo based on experimental von Karman type flows Numerical study of homogeneous dynamo based on experimental von Karman type flows

2003-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0301032v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

20 pages, 32 figures

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2003-00187-2

A numerical study of the magnetic induction equation has been performed on von Karman type flows. These flows are generated by two co-axial counter-rotating propellers in cylindrical containers. Such devices are currently used in the von Karman sodium (VKS) experiment designed to study dynamo action in an unconstrained flow. The mean velocity fields have been measured for different configurations and are introduced in a periodic cylindrical kinematic dynamo code. Depending on the driving configuration, on the poloidal to toroidal flow ratio and on the conductivity of boundaries, some flows are observed to sustain growing magnetic fields for magnetic Reynolds numbers accessible to a sodium experiment. The response of the flow to an external magnetic field has also been studied: The results are in excellent agreement with experimental results in the single propeller case but can differ in the two propellers case.

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