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arXiv 1606.04078physics.flu-dyn
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发电机产生的离心不稳定性

Dynamo generated by the centrifugal instability

Florence Marcotte, Christophe Gissinger

摘要:

我们提出了一个新的方案磁场放大的导电流体被限制在一个差分旋转,薄的纵横比的球壳。当角动量充分向外减小时,在赤道区域中发展出流体动力学不稳定性,其特征在于成对的反向旋转的环形涡,类似于在圆柱形库埃特流中观察到的那些。这些球形泰勒-库埃特涡旋产生由非轴对称分量主导的亚临界发电机磁场。我们发现,临界磁雷诺数似乎达到一个恒定的值,在大雷诺数和全球旋转可以强烈降低发电机启动。我们的数值结果是理解一个简单的动力系统的框架内,我们提出了一个低维模型的亚临界发电机分岔。实验室发电机和天体物理磁场的影响进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

We present a new scenario for magnetic field amplification where an electrically conducting fluid is confined in a differentially rotating, spherical shell with thin aspect-ratio. When the angular momentum sufficiently decreases outwards, an hydrodynamic instability develops in the equatorial region, characterised by pairs of counter-rotating toroidal vortices similar to those observed in cylindrical Couette flow. These spherical Taylor-Couette vortices generate a subcritical dynamo magnetic field dominated by non-axisymmetric components. We show that the critical magnetic Reynolds number seems to reach a constant value at large Reynolds number and that the global rotation can strongly decrease the dynamo onset. Our numerical results are understood within the framework of a simple dynamical system, and we propose a low-dimensional model for subcritical dynamo bifurcations. Implications for both laboratory dynamos and astrophysical magnetic fields are finally discussed.

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