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不同几何尺寸球壳段中的湍流发电机

Turbulent dynamos in spherical shell segments of varying geometrical extent

Dhrubaditya Mitra, Reza Tavakol, Axel Brandenburg, David Moss

摘要:

我们使用三维直接数值模拟的螺旋强制磁流体动力学方程在球壳段,以研究的影响的几何形状和尺寸的变化的域上的增长和饱和的大规模磁场。我们注入动能随着动力学螺旋度在球形域通过螺旋强迫使用Kensrasekhar-Kendall函数。我们采取完美的导体边界条件的磁场,以确保没有磁螺旋逃脱域边界。我们发现发电机的行动引起磁场的尺度大于特征尺度的强制。在耗散时间尺度上,磁能超过了动能,类似于先前在周期性盒子中的笛卡尔模拟中看到的情况。当我们在方位角方向上增加磁畴的尺寸时,我们发现非线性饱和磁场以长寿命的细胞结构组织自己,其纵横比接近1。这些结构沿着方位角方向平铺磁畴,因此对于大磁畴尺寸产生非常小的纵向平均磁场。这些结构的尺度由域的最小尺度决定,在我们的模拟中,最小尺度通常是径向尺度。我们还发现,除了在大规模领域的边际增加,增加的领域的范围内几乎没有产生质的变化。我们得到定性相似的结果在笛卡尔域具有相似的纵横比。

英文摘要:

We use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of the helically forced magnetohydrodynamic equations in spherical shell segments in order to study the effects of changes in the geometrical shape and size of the domain on the growth and saturation of large-scale magnetic fields. We inject kinetic energy along with kinetic helicity in spherical domains via helical forcing using Chandrasekhar-Kendall functions. We take perfect conductor boundary conditions for the magnetic field to ensure that no magnetic helicity escapes the domain boundaries. We find dynamo action giving rise to magnetic fields at scales larger than the characteristic scale of the forcing. The magnetic energy exceeds the kinetic energy over dissipative time scales, similar to that seen earlier in Cartesian simulations in periodic boxes. As we increase the size of the domain in the azimuthal direction we find that the nonlinearly saturated magnetic field organizes itself in long-lived cellular structures with aspect ratios close to unity. These structures tile the domain along the azimuthal direction, thus resulting in very small longitudinally averaged magnetic fields for large domain sizes. The scales of these structures are determined by the smallest scales of the domain, which in our simulations is usually the radial scale. We also find that increasing the meridional extent of the domains produces little qualitative change, except a marginal increase in the large-scale field. We obtain qualitatively similar results in Cartesian domains with similar aspect ratios.

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