Non-holonomic filamentary dynamos as generalized Arnold's maps in Riemannian space

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Jul 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008an....329..583g&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.329, Issue 6, p.583

Physics

Magnetohydrodynamics (Mhd)

Scientific paper

A filamentary non-holonomic dynamo solution of self-induction magnetic field equation is found by considering highly conducting filaments. It is shown that planar filaments cannot support dynamo action since the flow along the filament vanishes for torsion-free filaments. This is a generalization of the Zeldovich theorem for linear magnetic dynamo filaments. The flow of filament is proportionally to the product between Frenet torsion and curvature. This shows that filamentary dynamos must possess Frenet torsion. A well-known example of this result is the {\alpha}-dynamo in solar physics. Magnetic helicity and magnetic energy for this filamentary dynamo are computed. Magnetic helicity vanishes by construction and the magnetic field decays with torsion energy in helicoidal dynamos. The approach considered here is useful for the investigation of anisotropic turbulent cascades. As a particular simple example it is shown that under certain constraints the solution can be reduced to the Arnold cat dynamo map solution where the non-holonomic directional mixed derivative, would play the role of the Lyapunov exponent which appears on stretching the magnetic field in Riemannian space. The solution seems to describe marginal slow dynamos when the velocities involved in the dynamo flows are constants.

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