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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

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Nonlinear dynamo action in a precessing cylindrical container.

C Nore¹, J Léorat, J-L Guermond

¹Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur, CNRS UPR 3251, Orsay, France. nore@limsi.fr

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Precession can initiate the dynamo effect in cylindrical containers. Increasing the Reynolds number leads to unstable flow, sustaining dynamo action and generating an unsteady, quadrupolar magnetic field.

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Area of Science:

Magnetohydrodynamics
Fluid dynamics
Plasma physics

Background:

The dynamo effect generates magnetic fields within celestial bodies and laboratory experiments.
Understanding the conditions that trigger and sustain the dynamo effect is crucial for astrophysics and geophysics.
Previous studies have explored various mechanisms for dynamo generation, but precession-driven dynamos in simple geometries remain an active area of research.

Purpose of the Study:

To numerically demonstrate that precession can trigger the dynamo effect in a cylindrical container.
To investigate the transition of fluid flow from centrosymmetric to quasiperiodic motion.
To characterize the resulting magnetic field and its properties.

Main Methods:

Utilized a magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code for numerical simulations.
Analyzed the stability of the fluid flow as a function of the Reynolds number.
Examined the linear and nonlinear regimes of dynamo action.

Main Results:

Precession was shown to trigger the dynamo effect in a cylindrical container.
Increasing Reynolds number led to flow instability and bifurcation to quasiperiodic motion.
The generated magnetic field was unsteady and quadrupolar, sustained by the asymmetric flow.

Conclusions:

Numerical evidence supports dynamo action in a precessing cylindrical container.
The findings provide valuable insights for upcoming experiments at the Dresden sodium facility.
This study contributes to the understanding of astrophysical and geophysical dynamo processes.