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湍流对流中的负有效磁压

Negative effective magnetic pressure in turbulent convection

P. J. Käpylä, A. Brandenburg, N. Kleeorin, M. J. Mantere, I. Rogachevskii

摘要:

本文研究了弱层结和强层结湍流对流对平均有效洛伦兹力,特别是对平均有效磁压的影响。早先对各向同性强制非分层和分层湍流的研究表明,对于小于均分强度的平均水平磁场,湍流对平均磁压的贡献为负,因此考虑湍流效应的有效平均磁压可能为负。与较早的等温状态方程的强迫湍流情况相比,我们发现,湍流效应类似于或甚至更强的湍流对流的情况下。这被认为是由于湍流在垂直方向上的各向异性。与早期研究相比,另一个重要的区别是特定熵的演化方程的存在。具有熵演化的平均场建模表明,负有效磁压仍然可以导致形成局部通量集中的大尺度不稳定性,即使特定的熵演化在应用于稳定分层(例如,等温)层。有人认为,这种大规模的不稳定性可能是重要的太阳大规模的磁结构,如活动区的形成。

英文摘要:

We investigate the effects of weakly and strongly stratified turbulent convection on the mean effective Lorentz force, and especially on the mean effective magnetic pressure. Earlier studies with isotropically forced non-stratified and stratified turbulence have shown that the contribution of the turbulence to the mean magnetic pressure is negative for mean horizontal magnetic fields that are smaller than the equipartition strength, so that the effective mean magnetic pressure that takes into account the turbulence effects, can be negative. Compared with earlier cases of forced turbulence with an isothermal equation of state, we find that the turbulence effect is similar to or even stronger in the present case of turbulent convection. This is argued to be due to the anisotropy of turbulence in the vertical direction. Another important difference compared with earlier studies is the presence of an evolution equation for the specific entropy. Mean-field modelling with entropy evolution indicates that the negative effective magnetic pressure can still lead to a large-scale instability which forms local flux concentrations, even though the specific entropy evolution tends to have a stabilizing effect when applied to a stably stratified (e.g., isothermal) layer. It is argued that this large-scale instability could be important for the formation of solar large-scale magnetic structures such as active regions.

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