Dynamically consistent magnetic fields produced by differential rotation

DOI10.1017/S0022112087001356zbMath0634.76115OpenAlexW2092054754MaRDI QIDQ3773638

M. R. E. Proctor, David R. Fearn

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112087001356

zbMATH Keywords

Taylor's constraintpoloidal magnetic fieldalpha-effect dynamo formalismaxisymmetric velocity fielddynamically driven dynamosgeostrophic zonal flow fieldmagnetostrophic range

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Geo-electricity and geomagnetism (86A25)

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• Hydromagnetic waves in a differentially rotating sphere
• The stabilizing role of differential rotation on hydromagnetic waves
• On α‐dynamos
• The macrodynamics of α-effect dynamos in rotating fluids
• Numerical solutions of the nonlinear α-effect dynamo equations

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