Kinematic dynamos associated with large scale fluid motions
Kinematic dynamos associated with large scale fluid motions
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DOI:
10.1080/03091929108220003
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发表时间:
1991-11
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
Takahiro Nakajima;M. Kono
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作者:
Takahiro Nakajima;M. Kono
Abstract A standard approach to the kinematic dynamo problem is that pioneered by Bullard and Gellman (1954), which utilizes the toroidal-poloidal separation and spherical harmonic expansion of the magnetic and velocity fields. In these studies, the velocity field is given as a combination of small number of toroidal and poloidal harmonics, with their radial dependences prescribed by some physical considerations. Starting from the original paper of Bullard and Gellman (1954), a number of authors repeated such analyses on different combination of velocity fields, including the most recent and comprehensive effort by Dudley and James (1989). In this paper, we re-examine the previous kinematic dynamo models, using the computer algebra approach initiated by Kono (1990). This method is particularly suited to this kind of research since different velocity fields can be treated by a single program. We used the distribution of magnetic energies in various harmonics to infer the convergence of the results. The num...