Revisiting kinematic fast dynamo in three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamicplasmas: dynamo transition from non-helical to helical flows

Author:

Biswas ShishirORCID,Ganesh RajaramanORCID

Abstract

Abstract Dynamos wherein magnetic field is produced from velocity fluctuations are fundamental to our understanding of several astrophysical and/or laboratory phenomena. Though fluid helicity is known to play a key role in the onset of dynamo action, its effect is yet to be fully understood. In this work, a fluid flow proposed recently (Yoshida et al 2017, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 244501) is invoked such that one may inject zero or finite fluid helicity using a control parameter, at the beginning of the simulation. Using a simple kinematic dynamo model, for the considered flow, we demonstrate unambiguously a strong dependency of short scale dynamo on fluid helicity. In contrast to conventional understanding, it is shown that fluid helicity does strongly influence the physics of short scale dynamo for the flow profiles considered. To corroborate our findings, late time magnetic field spectra for various values of injected fluid helicity is presented along with ‘geometric” signatures of the 3D magnetic field surfaces, which shows a transition from ‘twisted ribbon’ or ‘twisted’ sheet to ‘cigar’ like configurations. This work brings out, for the first time, the role of fluid helicity in the transition from ‘non-dynamo’ to ‘dynamo’ regime systematically. It is also shown that one of the most studied ABC dynamo model is not the ”fastest’ dynamo model for problems at lower magnetic Reynolds number.

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,Mathematical Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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