Magnetic Structures Produced by the Small-Scale Dynamo

Magnetic structures produced by the small-scale dynamo.

Small-scale dynamo action has been obtained for a flow previously used to model fluid turbulence, where the sensitivity of the magnetic field parameters to the kinetic energy spectrum can be explored. We apply quantitative morphology diagnostics, based on the Minkowski functionals, to magnetic fields produced by the kinematic small-scale dynamo to show that magnetic structures are predominantly...

The magnetic shear-current effect: generation of large-scale magnetic fields by the small-scale dynamo

J. Squire1,3† and A. Bhattacharjee2,3 TAPIR, Mailcode 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Department of Astrophysical Sciences and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08543 Max Planck/Princeton Center for Plasma Physics, Department of Astrophysical Sciences and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princet...

Small-Scale-Field Dynamo.

Small-Scale Turbulent Dynamo

Kinematic dynamo theory is presented here for turbulent conductive fluids. We describe how inhomogeneous magnetic fluctuations are generated below the viscous scale of turbulence where the spatial smoothness of the velocity permits a systematic analysis of the Lagrangian path dynamics. We find analytically the moments and multipoint correlation functions of the magnetic field at small yet finit...

Small-scale magnetic helicity losses from a mean-field dynamo

Using mean-field models with a dynamical quenching formalism, we show that in finite domains magnetic helicity fluxes associated with small-scale magnetic fields are able to alleviate catastrophic quenching. We consider fluxes that result from advection by a mean flow, the turbulent mixing down the gradient of mean small-scale magnetic helicity density or the explicit removal which may be assoc...