Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-11-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
4 pages, 6 figures, A&A Letter
Scientific paper
Deviations from axial symmetry are necessary to maintain self-sustained MRI-turbulence. We define the parameters region where nonaxisymmetric MRI is excited and study dependence of the unstable modes structure and growth rates on the relevant parameters. We solve numerically the linear eigenvalue problem for global axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric modes of standard-MRI in Keplerian disks with finite diffusion. For small magnetic Prandtl number the microscopic viscosity completely drops out from the analysis so that the stability maps and the growth rates expressed in terms of the magnetic Reynolds number Rm and the Lundquist number S do not depend on the magnetic Prandtl number Pm. The minimum magnetic field for onset of nonaxisymmetric MRI grows with Rm. For given S all nonaxisymmetric modes disappear for sufficiently high Rm. This behavior is a consequence of the radial fine-structure of the nonaxisymmetric modes resulting from the winding effect of differential rotation. It is this fine-structure which presents severe resolution problems for the numerical simulation of MRI at large Rm. For weak supercritical magnetic fields only axisymmetric modes are unstable. Nonaxisymmetric modes need stronger fields and not too fast rotation. If Pm is small its real value does not play any role in MRI.
Kitchatinov Leonid L.
Ruediger Guenther
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