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Large scale dynamos with ambipolar diffusion nonlinearity

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Axel Brandenburg, Kumanan Subramaniam

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Abstract

It is shown that ambipolar diffusion as a useful model for nonlinearity leads to similar behaviour of large scale turbulent dynamos as full MHD. This is demonstrated using both direct simulations in a periodic box and a closure model for the magnetic correlation functions applicable to infinite space. Large scale fields develop via a nonlocal inverse cascade as described by the ct-effect. However, magnetic helicity can only change on a resistive timescale, so the time it takes to organize the field into large scales increases with magnetic Reynolds number.

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Author(s): Brandenburg A, Subramanian K

Publication type: Letter

Publication status: Published

Journal: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Year: 2000

Volume: 361

Issue: 2

Pages: L33-L36

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URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0007450

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