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View SchemaInfluence of turbulence on the dynamo threshold
| Authors | Jean-Philippe Laval, Pierre Blaineau, Nicolas Leprovost, Bérengère Dubrulle, François Daviaud |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0601062 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0601062 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.204503 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett. 96 (2006) 204503 |
Abstract
We use direct and stochastic numerical simulations of the magnetohydrodynamic equations to explore the influence of turbulence on the dynamo threshold. In the spirit of the Kraichnan-Kazantsev model, we model the turbulence by a noise, with given amplitude, injection scale and correlation time. The addition of a stochastic noise to the mean velocity significantly alters the dynamo threshold. When the noise is at small (resp. large) scale, the dynamo threshold is decreased (resp. increased). For a large scale noise, a finite correlation time reinforces this effect.
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