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磁通管的流动不稳定性--III。环形磁通管

Flow instabilities of magnetic flux tubes -- III. Toroidal flux tubes

Volkmar Holzwarth

摘要:

除了浮力和磁张力驱动的不稳定性之外,磁通量环还容易受到由流体动力拖曳力引起的不稳定性的影响。我们调查的环形形状和平衡条件的摩擦引起的不稳定性的阈值和它们的相关性新兴的磁通量在类太阳恒星的影响。通过分析色散多项式系数矩阵的主子式序列,导出了轴对称扰动和赤道面通量环的解析不稳定性判据。通过考虑太阳过冲区的通量管,对非赤道通量环的一般情况进行了数值研究。摩擦引起的不稳定性发生时,本征模式反转其传播方向,由于平流,通常从逆行到逆行方向。由于反转需要磁通管内等离子体与环境之间存在一定的相对速度差,因此不稳定性判据取决于磁通环的位置和场强。摩擦引起的不稳定性比浮力和张力驱动的不稳定性在较低的场强下发生。它的阈值与摩擦力的大小无关,但增长率取决于磁通管与环境之间的摩擦耦合强度。摩擦引起的不稳定性降低了临界磁场强度,超过该磁场强度,通量管受到不断增长的扰动。而浮力和张力驱动的不稳定性取决于单独的磁场强度,流体动力学阻力对管直径的依赖性引起的磁通量上的生长时间的额外的依赖性。

英文摘要:

In addition to buoyancy- and magnetic tension-driven instabilities, magnetic flux rings are also susceptible to an instability induced by the hydrodynamic drag force. We investigate the influence of the toroidal shape and equilibrium condition on the thresholds of the friction-induced instability and on their relevance for emerging magnetic flux in solar-like stars. Analytical instability criteria are derived for axial symmetric perturbations and for flux rings in the equatorial plane by analysing the sequence of principal minors of the coefficient matrices of dispersion polynomials. The general case of non-equatorial flux rings is investigated numerically by considering flux tubes in the solar overshoot region. The friction-induced instability occurs when an eigenmode reverses its direction of propagation due to advection, typically from the retrograde to the prograde direction. Since the reversal requires a certain relative velocity difference between plasma inside the flux tube and the environment, the instability criterion depends on the location and field strength of the flux ring. The friction-induced instability sets in at lower field strengths than buoyancy- and tension-driven instabilities. Its threshold is independent of the strength of friction, but the growth rates depend on the strength of the frictional coupling between flux tube and environment. The friction-induced instability lowers the critical magnetic field strength beyond which flux tubes are subject to growing perturbations. Whereas buoyancy- and tension-driven instabilities depend on the magnetic field strength alone, the dependence of hydrodynamic drag on the tube diameter gives rise to an additional dependence of growth times on the magnetic flux.

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