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洛伦兹力对湍流发电机转变的调节作用

Lorentz force mediation of turbulent dynamo transitions

Krista M. Soderlund, Paula Wulff, Petri Käpylä, Jonathan M. Aurnou

AI总结:

本研究通过改变磁普朗特数调节洛伦兹力,发现其强度决定恒星对流发电机转变,包括较差自转模式切换,并受局部磁罗斯比数控制。

摘要:

我们在以浮力为主导的三维球壳对流发电机模型系列中,研究了洛伦兹力的强度如何改变恒星对流区的动力学。这是通过仅改变磁普朗特数 $Pm$(即流体电导率 $σ$ 的无量纲形式)来实现的。由于发电机磁场强度和洛伦兹力随 $Pm$ 缩放,我们发现,在本文研究的 $0.25 \leq Pm \leq 10$ 范围内,流体运动、对流热传输模式以及发电机产生方式均有所不同。例如,我们展示了强磁流体动力学效应会导致表面纬向流的根本性变化:较差自转从较大电导率下的类太阳模式(赤道顺行纬向流)转变为较低电导率下的反太阳较差自转(赤道逆行纬向流)。本研究表明,体电导率的值不仅对维持发电机作用至关重要,还能驱动磁场、速度和温度场特性的一阶变化。它还与该系统中由局部磁罗斯比数 $Ro_\ell^M$ 衡量的洛伦兹力相对强度相关,我们证明该参数对于设定产生这些发电机场的大尺度对流 regime 的特性至关重要。

英文摘要:

We investigate how the strength of the Lorentz force alters stellar convection zone dynamics in a suite of buoyancy-dominated, three-dimensional, spherical shell convective dynamo models. This is done by varying only the magnetic Prandtl number, $Pm$, the non-dimensional form of the fluid's electrical conductivity $σ$. Because the strength of the dynamo magnetic field and the Lorentz force scale with $Pm$, it is found that the fluid motions, the pattern of convective heat transfer, and the mode of dynamo generation all differ across the $0.25 \leq Pm \leq 10$ range investigated here. For example, we show that strong magnetohydrodynamic effects cause a fundamental change in the surface zonal flows: differential rotation switches from solar-like (prograde equatorial zonal flow) for larger electrical conductivities to an anti-solar differential rotation (retrograde equatorial zonal flow) at lower electrical conductivities. This study shows that the value of the bulk electrical conductivity is important not only for sustaining dynamo action, but can also drive first-order changes in the characteristics of the magnetic, velocity, and temperature fields. It is also associated with the relative strength of the Lorentz force in the system as measured by the local magnetic Rossby number, $Ro_\ell^M$, which we show is crucial in setting the characteristics of the large-scale convection regime that generates those dynamo fields.

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