The helicity issue in large scale dynamos

Details The helicity issue in large scale dynamos The helicity issue in large scale dynamos

2002-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207394v1

Lect.Notes Phys. 614 (2003) 402-431

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

30 pages, 16 figures, to appear in "Simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in astrophysics" eds. T. Passot & E. Falga

Scientific paper

The connection between helically isotropic MHD turbulence and mean-field dynamo theory is reviewed. The nonlinearity in the mean-field theory is not yet well established, but detailed comparison with simulations begin to help select viable forms of the nonlinearity. The crucial discriminant is the magnetic helicity, which is known to evolve only on a slow resistive time scale in the limit of large magnetic Reynolds number. Particular emphasis is put on the possibility of memory effects, which means that an additional explicitly time-dependent equation for the nonlinearity is solved simultaneously with the mean-field equations. This approach leads to better agreement with the simulations, while it would also produce more favorable agreement between models and stellar dynamos.

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