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Published on: March 6, 2013
Pointwise vanishing velocity helicity of a flow does not preclude magnetic field generation
Alexander Andrievsky1, Roman Chertovskih2, Vladislav Zheligovsky1
1Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Science, 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Street, 117997 Moscow, Russian Federation.
Abstract:
Pointwise zero velocity helicity density is shown not to prevent steady flows from acting as kinematic dynamos. We present numerical evidences that such flows can generate both small-scale magnetic fields as well as, by the magnetic α-effect or negative eddy diffusivity mechanisms, large-scale ones. The flows are constructed as curls of analytically defined space-periodic steady solenoidal flows, whose vorticity helicity (i.e., kinetic helicity) density is everywhere zero.
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