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α效应和湍流扩散系数的尺度依赖性

Scale dependence of alpha effect and turbulent diffusivity

A. Brandenburg, K. -H. Rädler, M. Schrinner

摘要:

目的:为了确定α效应和湍流磁扩散率的平均磁场具有不同的长度尺度的模拟各向同性湍流的轮廓,并将这些结果与非局部制剂中,α和湍流磁扩散率对应于积分内核。研究方法:求解了一组磁场的演化方程,该方程给出了对施加的测试场的响应,即具有各种波数的平均磁场。这两个强加的完全螺旋状的运动(罗伯茨流)和时间依赖的统计稳定的各向同性湍流的模式组成的稳定流被认为是。在后一种情况下,上述演化方程与动量方程和连续性方程同时求解。相应的电动势的结果被用来计算α和磁扩散率张量。结果如下:对于罗伯茨流下的二阶相关近似和各向同性湍流α和湍流磁扩散率是最大的在大尺度上,这些值减小向较小的尺度。在这两种情况下,α效应和湍流扩散核很好地近似指数,对应于傅立叶空间中的洛伦兹分布。对于各向同性湍流,湍流扩散核是α效应核的一半宽。对于超过二阶相关近似的Roberts流,湍流扩散核在大尺度下变为负值。

英文摘要:

Aims: To determine alpha effect and turbulent magnetic diffusivity for mean magnetic fields with profiles of different length scale from simulations of isotropic turbulence, and to relate these results to nonlocal formulations in which alpha and the turbulent magnetic diffusivity correspond to integral kernels. Methods: A set of evolution equations for magnetic fields is solved which gives the response to imposed test fields, that is, mean magnetic fields with various wavenumbers. Both an imposed fully helical steady flow consisting of a pattern of screw-like motions (Roberts flow) and time-dependent statistically steady isotropic turbulence are considered. In the latter case the aforementioned evolution equations are solved simultaneously with the momentum and continuity equations. The corresponding results for the electromotive force are used to calculate alpha and magnetic diffusivity tensors. Results: For both the Roberts flow under the second--order correlation approximation and isotropic turbulence alpha and turbulent magnetic diffusivity are largest at large scales and these values diminish toward smaller scales. In both cases the alpha effect and turbulent diffusion kernels are well approximated by exponentials, corresponding to Lorentzian profiles in Fourier space. For isotropic turbulence the turbulent diffusion kernel is half as wide as the alpha effect kernel. For the Roberts flow beyond the second--order correlation approximation the turbulent diffusion kernel becomes negative at large scales.

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