Subcritical dynamos in rapidly rotating planar convection

Transitions in rapidly rotating convection driven dynamos.

Numerical simulations of dynamos in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection in plane layers are presented. Two different types of dynamos exist which obey different scaling laws for the amplitude of the magnetic field. The transition between the two occurs within a hydrodynamically uniform regime which can be classified as rapidly rotating convection.

“Unusual Properties of Convection and Dynamos in Rotating Spherical Shells”

Hysteresis of dynamos in rotating spherical shell convection

F. Feudel, L. S. Tuckerman, M. Zaks, R. Hollerbach 1 Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes (PMMH), CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France Department of Applied Mathematics, Universi...

Subcritical dynamos in shear flows

1 Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France 2 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom 3 Laboratoire d’hydrodynamique (LadHyX), CNRS – École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France

Rotating convection-driven dynamos at low Ekman number.

We present a fully 3D self-consistent convection-driven dynamo model with reference to the geodynamo. A relatively low Ekman number regime is reached, with the aim of investigating the dynamical behavior at low viscosity. This regime is computationally very demanding, which has prompted us to adopt a plane layer model with an inclined rotation vector, and to make use of efficiently parallelized...