Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
Feb 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002gapfd..96..115p&link_type=abstract
Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, vol. 96, Issue 2, p.115-133
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
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Scientific paper
The paper deals with the dynamo action of the Roberts flow, that is, a flow depending periodically on two cartesian coordinates, X and Y, but being independent of the third one, Z. In particular the case is considered in which the magnetic fields, which are periodic in X, Y and Z, have period lengths in the XY-plane being integer multiples of that of the flow. Two approaches are used. Firstly, the equations governing the magnetic field are reduced to a matrix eigenvalue problem, which is solved numerically. Secondly, a mean magnetic field is defined by averaging over proper areas in the XY-plane, corresponding equations are derived, in which the induction effect of the flow occurs as an anisotropic f-effect, and analytic solutions are given. The results are of particular interest for the Karlsruhe dynamo experiment, which works with a Roberts type flow consisting of 52 cells inside a cylindrical volume. In order to check the reliability of predictions concerning self-excitation based on the mean-field approach, analogous predictions are derived for a rectangular box containing 50 cells, and are compared with results obtained with the help of direct solutions of the eigenvalue problem mentioned. It turns out that the simple mean-field approach in general underestimates the requirements for self-excitation. The corresponding results agree with those obtained in the subharmonic approach only if the side length L of the box, its height H and the edge length l of a spin generator satisfy L ≫ H ≫ l . In Appendix B, some comments on previous results concerning cal {ABC} dynamos are made in the light of the subharmonic formalism used in the paper.
Plunian Franck
Rädler Karl-Heinz
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