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Taylor-Couette流中的绝对与对流螺旋磁旋转不稳定性

Absolute versus convective helical magnetorotational instability in a Taylor-Couette flow

Jānis Priede, Gunter Gerbeth

摘要:

本文采用无感近似方法,数值分析了螺旋磁场(HMRI)中Taylor-Couette流的磁旋转不稳定性。本文用Chebyshev配置法计算了小振幅扰动的特征谱。首先,我们进行了详细的传统的线性稳定性分析相对于扰动的傅立叶模式的形式,对应于对流不稳定,这是不是在一般的自我维持。螺旋磁场被发现扩展到一个相对较窄的范围内的不稳定性超出其纯粹的流体动力学极限所定义的瑞利线。HMRI出现的临界阈值不仅有一个下限,而且有一个上限,在此阈值下HMRI再次消失。后者将HMRI与磁改性泰勒涡流区分开来。其次,我们也发现了一个绝对不稳定阈值。在Rayleigh线之前的流体动力学不稳定区域中,绝对不稳定的阈值仅略高于对流阈值,尽管前者的临界波长明显短于后者。在瑞利线之外,绝对不稳定的下限显著高于相应的对流下限,而上限则显著低于对流下限。因此,绝对HMRI超出瑞利线的延伸远短于对流不稳定。绝对的HMRI应该是自我维持的,因此,在一个足够大的轴向延伸系统中,在没有任何外部激励的情况下,可以通过实验观察到。

英文摘要:

We analyze numerically the magnetorotational instability of a Taylor-Couette flow in a helical magnetic field (HMRI) using the inductionless approximation defined by a zero magnetic Prandtl number (Pm=0). The Chebyshev collocation method is used to calculate the eigenvalue spectrum for small amplitude perturbations. First, we carry out a detailed conventional linear stability analysis with respect to perturbations in the form of Fourier modes that corresponds to the convective instability which is not in general self-sustained. The helical magnetic field is found to extend the instability to a relatively narrow range beyond its purely hydrodynamic limit defined by the Rayleigh line. There is not only a lower critical threshold at which HMRI appears but also an upper one at which it disappears again. The latter distinguishes the HMRI from a magnetically-modified Taylor vortex flow. Second, we find an absolute instability threshold as well. In the hydrodynamically unstable regime before the Rayleigh line, the threshold of absolute instability is just slightly above the convective one although the critical wave length of the former is noticeably shorter than that of the latter. Beyond the Rayleigh line the lower threshold of absolute instability rises significantly above the corresponding convective one while the upper one descends significantly below its convective counterpart. As a result, the extension of the absolute HMRI beyond the Rayleigh line is considerably shorter than that of the convective instability. The absolute HMRI is supposed to be self-sustained and, thus, experimentally observable without any external excitation in a system of sufficiently large axial extension.

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