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http://hdl.handle.net/2289/7176| Title: | Generation of large-scale magnetic fields due to fluctuating in shearing systems |
| Authors: | Jingade, Naveen Singh, Nishant K. Sridhar, S. |
| Keywords: | astrophysical plasmas Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Physics - Plasma Physics |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2018 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Citation: | Journal of Plasma Physics, Volume 84, 735840601, p20 |
| Abstract: | We explore the growth of large-scale magnetic fields in a shear flow, due to felicity fluctuations with a finite correlation time, through a study of the Kraichnan-Moffatt model of zero-mean stochastic fluctuations of the α parameter of dynamo theory. We derive a linear integrate-differential equation for the evolution of large-scale magnetic field, using the first-order smoothing approximation and the Galilean in variance of the α-statistics. This enables construction of a model that is non-perturbative in the shearing rate S and the α-correlation time τα. After a brief review of the salient features of the exactly solvable white-noise limit, we consider the case of small but non-zero τα. When the large-scale magnetic field varies slowly, the evolution is governed by a partial differential equation. We present modal solutions and conditions for the exponential growth rate of the large-scale magnetic field, whose drivers are the Kraichnan diffusivity, Moffatt drift, Shear and a non-zero correlation time. Of particular interest is dynamo action when the α-fluctuations are weak; i.e. when the Kraichnan diffusivity is positive. We show that in the absence of Moffatt drift, shear does not give rise to growing solutions. But shear and Moffatt drift acting together can drive large scale dynamo action with growth rate γ∝|S|. |
| Description: | Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/7176 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3778 1469-7807 (Online) |
| Alternative Location: | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu//#abs/2018JPlPh..84f7301J/abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04567 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377818001174 |
| Copyright: | 2018 Cambridge University Press |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (A&A) |
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