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ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN
Volume 329, Issue 7, Pages 737-749Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asna.200811018
Keywords
magnetic fields; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); turbulence
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- UK STFC
- Isaac Newton Trust
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G003955/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/C506021/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G003955/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Numerical simulations of forced turbulence in elongated shearing boxes are carried out to demonstrate that a nonhelical turbulence in conjunction with a linear shear can give rise to a mean-field dynamo. Exponential growth of magnetic field at scales larger than the outer (forcing) scale of the turbulence is found. Over a range of values of the shearing rate S spanning approximately two orders of magnitude, the growth rate of the magnetic field is proportional to the imposed shear, gamma proportional to S, while the characteristic spatial scale of the field is l(B) proportional to S-1/2. The effect is quite general: earlier results for the nonrotating case by Yousef et al. (2008) are extended to shearing boxes with Keplerian rotation; it is also shown that the shear dynamo mechanism operates both below and above the threshold for the fluctuation dynamo. The apparently generic nature of the shear dynamo effect makes it an attractive object of study for the purpose of understanding the generation of magnetic fields in astrophysical systems. (C) 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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