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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

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Mean-field dynamo action in renovating shearing flows.

Sanved Kolekar¹, Kandaswamy Subramanian, S Sridhar

¹IUCAA, Pune University Campus, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India. sanved@iucaa.ernet.in

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

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Mean-field dynamo action with shear is impossible in strictly nonhelical turbulence. However, with some helicity, dynamo growth occurs, even with fluctuations, aligning with standard models.

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Area of Science:

Magnetohydrodynamics
Plasma Physics
Astrophysical Dynamo Theory

Background:

Mean-field dynamo theory explains the generation of large-scale magnetic fields in turbulent plasmas.
Previous studies focused on non-sheared flows, leaving the role of shear in dynamo action unclear.
Numerical simulations suggest mean-field dynamo action is possible even with nonhelical turbulence under shear.

Purpose of the Study:

To generalize previous findings on mean-field dynamo action to include the presence of shear.
To investigate the possibility of mean magnetic field growth in sheared, nonhelical turbulent flows.
To analyze the impact of finite correlation time (τ) on dynamo action under shear.

Main Methods:

Theoretical analysis of mean-field dynamo action in renovating flows with finite correlation time (τ) and shear.
General mathematical derivation to demonstrate the impossibility of dynamo action in strictly nonhelical flows.
Specific case analysis of a renovating flow with helicity to recover known dynamo relations.

Main Results:

Mean-field dynamo action is shown to be impossible in strictly nonhelical turbulent flows, even with shear.
This result holds regardless of fluid or magnetic Reynolds numbers and without closure approximations.
For flows with helicity, the standard α(2)Ω dynamo dispersion relation is recovered in the small τ limit, indicating mean field growth.

Conclusions:

Shear alone does not enable mean-field dynamo action in the absence of helicity.
Dynamo growth is possible in the presence of helicity fluctuations, though coherent helicity is more efficient.
The study reconciles theoretical predictions with numerical observations regarding dynamo action under shear and turbulence.