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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 951, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2022.841
Keywords
MHD turbulence; magneto convection; rotating turbulence
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- Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India [SERB/ME/2020318]
- Office of Research and Development, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur [IITK/ME/2019194]
- PARAM Sanganak under the National Supercomputing Mission, Government of India at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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This study investigates rapidly rotating convection-driven dynamos under different boundary conditions using direct numerical simulations. The results show that the statistical behavior of the dynamos, including force balance, energetics, and heat transport, depends on the boundary conditions, especially the velocity and magnetic boundary conditions. The study also finds that heat transfer is enhanced in rotating dynamo convection compared to non-magnetic rotating convection, with the peak enhancement occurring at specific boundary conditions.
Rapidly rotating convection-driven dynamos are investigated under different kinematic and magnetic boundary conditions using direct numerical simulations. At a fixed rotation rate, represented by the Ekman number Ek = 5 x 10(-7), the thermal forcing is varied from 2 to 20 times its value at the onset of convection (R = Ra/Ra-c = 2-20, where Ra is the Rayleigh number), keeping the fluid properties constant (Pr = Pr-m = 1, where Pr and Pr-m are the thermal and magnetic Prandtl numbers). The statistical behaviour of the dynamos, including the force balance, energetics, and heat transport, depends on the boundary conditions that dictate both the boundary layer and the interior dynamics. At a fixed thermal forcing (R = 3), the structure and strength of the magnetic field produced by the dynamos, especially near the walls, depend on both velocity and magnetic boundary conditions. Though the leading-order force balance in the bulk remains geostrophic, the Lorentz force becomes comparable to the Coriolis force inside the thermal boundary layer with no-slip, perfectly conducting conditions. In this case, a term signifying the work done by the Lorentz force in the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) equation is found to have some components that extract energy from the velocity field to produce the magnetic field, while some other components extract energy from the magnetic field to produce TKE. However, with no-slip, pseudo-vacuum conditions, all the components of the work done by the Lorentz force perform unidirectional energy transfer to produce magnetic energy from the kinetic energy of the fluid to sustain dynamo action. We find heat transfer enhancement in the rotating dynamo convection, as compared with non-magnetic rotating convection, with the peak enhancement lying in the range R = 3-4. For free-slip conditions, in the absence of an Ekman layer, the dynamo action may alter the heat transport significantly by suppressing the formation of large-scale vortices. However, the highest heat transfer enhancement is found at R = 3 with no-slip, perfectly conducting walls, which can be attributed to a local magnetorelaxation of the rotational constraint due to enhanced Lorentz force inside the thermal boundary layer.
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