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Fluctuation dynamo and turbulent induction at small Prandtl number.

Gregory L Eyink1.   

Abstract

We study the Lagrangian mechanism of the fluctuation dynamo at zero Prandtl number and infinite magnetic Reynolds number, in the Kazantsev-Kraichnan model of white-noise advection. With a rough velocity field corresponding to a turbulent inertial range, flux freezing holds only in a stochastic sense. We show that field lines arriving to the same point which were initially separated by many resistive lengths are important to the dynamo. Magnetic vectors of the seed field that point parallel to the initial separation vector arrive anticorrelated and produce an "antidynamo" effect. We also study the problem of "magnetic induction" of a spatially uniform seed field. We find no essential distinction between this process and fluctuation dynamo, both producing the same growth rates and small-scale magnetic correlations. In the regime of very rough velocity fields where fluctuation dynamo fails, we obtain the induced magnetic energy spectra. We use these results to evaluate theories proposed for magnetic spectra in laboratory experiments of turbulent induction.

Year:  2010        PMID: 21230397     DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.046314

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys        ISSN: 1539-3755


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1.  Flux-freezing breakdown in high-conductivity magnetohydrodynamic turbulence.

Authors:  Gregory Eyink; Ethan Vishniac; Cristian Lalescu; Hussein Aluie; Kalin Kanov; Kai Bürger; Randal Burns; Charles Meneveau; Alexander Szalay
Journal:  Nature       Date:  2013-05-23       Impact factor: 49.962

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