Kinetic and magnetic alpha effects in nonlinear dynamo theory

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2007-01-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701001v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.376:1238-1250,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11511.x

The backreaction of the Lorentz force on the alpha-effect is studied in the limit of small magnetic and fluid Reynolds numbers, using the first order smoothing approximation (FOSA) to solve both the induction and momentum equations. Both steady and time dependent forcings are considered. In the low Reynolds number limit, the velocity and magnetic fields can be expressed explicitly in terms of the forcing function. The nonlinear alpha-effect is then shown to be expressible in several equivalent forms in agreement with formalisms that are used in various closure schemes. On the one hand, one can express alpha completely in terms of the helical properties of the velocity field as in traditional FOSA, or, alternatively, as the sum of two terms, a so-called kinetic alpha-effect and an oppositely signed term proportional to the helical part of the small scale magnetic field. These results hold for both steady and time dependent forcing at arbitary strength of the mean field (abridged).

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