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View SchemaThe mean electromotive force due to turbulence of a conducting fluid in the presence of mean flow
| Authors | Karl-Heinz Readler, Rodion Stepanov |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0512120 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512120 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.056311 |
Abstract
The mean electromotive force caused by turbulence of an electrically conducting fluid, which plays a central part in mean--field electrodynamics, is calculated for a rotating fluid. Going beyond most of the investigations on this topic, an additional mean motion in the rotating frame is taken into account. One motivation for our investigation originates from a planned laboratory experiment with a Ponomarenko-like dynamo. In view of this application the second--order correlation approximation is used. The investigation is of high interest in astrophysical context, too. Some contributions to the mean electromotive are revealed which have not been considered so far, in particular contributions to the $\alpha$--effect and related effects due to the gradient of the mean velocity. Their relevance for dynamo processes is discussed. In a forthcoming paper the results reported here will be specified to the situation in the laboratory and partially compared with experimental findings.
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