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Published on: August 5, 2015
α effect in three-dimensional vortex of conducting rotating liquid
L L Ogorodnikov1, S S Vergeles1
1<a href="https://ror.org/00z65ng94">Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics</a>, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1-A Akademika Semenova av., 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia and <a href="https://ror.org/055f7t516">National Research University Higher School of Economics</a>, Faculty of Physics, Myasnitskaya 20, 101000 Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
We study one-point statistics of helical turbulent pulsations in the background of a three-dimensional large-scale vortex in a rotating fluid. Assuming that the helical flow is created by a statistically axially symmetric random force with broken mirror symmetry, we analytically calculate the velocity-vorticity mean including its magnitude and the anisotropy. For electrically conducting liquid, we examine the α-effect in the system. The found elements of the α-matrix strongly depend on the relation between Rossby Ro and magnetic Prandtl Pr_{m} numbers in the considered region Ro≪1, Pr_{m}≪1. We establish a criterion for the numbers when the α-effect leads to instability of large-scale magnetic field.
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