The alpha effect in rotating convection with sinusoidal shear

Details The alpha effect in rotating convection with sinusoidal shear The alpha effect in rotating convection with sinusoidal shear

2009-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/0908.2423v3

Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 402, 1458-1466 (2010)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

9 pages, 10 figures, published version

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.16004.x

Using three-dimensional convection simulations it is shown that a sinusoidal variation of horizontal shear leads to a kinematic \alpha effect with a similar sinusoidal variation. The effect exists even for weak stratification and arises owing to the inhomogeneity of turbulence and the presence of impenetrable vertical boundaries. This system produces large-scale magnetic fields that also show a sinusoidal variation in the streamwise direction. It is argued that earlier investigations overlooked these phenomena partly because of the use of horizontal averaging and also because measurements of \alpha using an imposed field combined with long time averages give erroneous results. It is demonstrated that in such cases the actual horizontally averaged mean field becomes non-uniform. The turbulent magnetic diffusion term resulting from such non-uniform fields can then no longer be neglected and begins to balance the \alpha effect.

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