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Turbulence and dynamosfor astrophysicists
Anvar Shukurov School of Mathematics & Statistics, Newcastle University, U.K.
Bonn, 20–22 September 2016
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Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21, Thursday 22 September
Lectures at 10:00–10:45, 11:00–11.45 and 12:00-12:45
Lunch break at 12:45–13:30
Office hour at 13:30–14:30 (Room 1.04)
The audience are strongly encouraged to ask questions at any time during the lectures and take advantage of the office hour.
Format
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Outline
1. Introduction
2. Elements of random functions
3. Phenomenology of fluid turbulence
4. Interstellar turbulence
5. Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
6. Dynamos
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Further readingA. HYDRODYNAMIC TURBULENCEM. Van Dyke, An Album of Fluid Motion. Parabolic Press, Stanford, 1982U. Frisch, Turbulence. The Legacy of A. N. Kolmogorov. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995H. Tennekes & J. L. Lumley, A First Course in Turbulence. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1972J. Jiménez, Turbulence. In: Perspectives in Fluid Dynamics. Eds G. K. Batchelor, H. K. Moffatt
& M. G. Worster. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000A. S. Monin & A. M. Yaglom, Statistical Fluid Mechanics. Vols 1 & 2. Ed. J. Lumley. MIT Press,
1971 & 1975 (Dover, 2007)
S. Panchev, Random Functions and Turbulence. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1971
B. MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC TURBULENCED. Biskamp, Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003
C. ASTROPHYSICAL TURBULENCEM.-M. Mac Low & R. S. Klessen, Control of star formation by supersonic turbulence. Rev.
Mod. Phys., 76, 125–194, 2004 (astro-ph/030193)B. G. Elmegreen & J. Scalo, Interstellar turbulence I: Observations and processes. Ann. Rev.
Astron. Astrophys., 2004 (astro-ph/0404451)J. Scalo & B. G. Elmegreen, Interstellar turbulence II: Implications and effects. Ann. Rev.
Astron. Astrophys., 2004 (astro-ph/0404452)
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1
Introduction
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Flows in nature: tendency to become disorderly (turbulent)
Turbulence behind a grid, 1 inch mesh size, the Reynolds number is 1500. The instability of shear layers leads to turbulence downstream (Fig. 152, van Dyke 1982).
Highly recommended: https://youtu.be/1_oyqLOqwnI
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Turbulent flows are
highly disorganized and yet contain structures on all scales,
velocity, pressure, etc., appear unpredictable in detail,
and yet are reproducible in statistical sense (average values, standard deviations, etc.).
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Turbulence is
a) a random flow of a liquid or gas,
b) where energy is transferred from large to small scales,
c) and dissipates there.
Each of a)–c) is an essential feature of turbulence
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Turbulence requires a continuous supply of energy from
instabilities of a laminar flow (e.g., shear instability, magneto-rotational instability in accretion discs);
buoyancy, convection, etc.;
external forces, e.g., supernova explosions in the ISM;
… …
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Significance of turbulence
Augments molecular transport and causes mixing within the gas or fluid.
Transfers energy from large scales to smaller scales where it dissipates into heat leading to enhanced viscosity, heat transfer, turbulent diffusion.
Generates coherent structures (flow structures, large-scale magnetic fields via dynamo action).
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2
Elements of random functions
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Turbulent flows are random
velocity 𝑣, pressure p, magnetic field 𝐵, density , etc.are random functions of position 𝑥 and time 𝑡.
A(x) is called a random function of the variable x if A(x) is a random variable for any fixed value x.
Realizations of a random function of time, x(t)
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2.1. Ensemble, volume and time averaging
Ensemble averaging: averaging over different realizations of the random function.
Volume/time averaging: averaging of a single realization of a random function over a region in space or time interval.
Ensemble averages appear in theory but are very difficult to measure or compute as they require a very large number of realizations to converge (often, millions of realizations).
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Ergodic random functions:
statistical properties obtained by averaging a set of its realizations (ensemble averages) are, with unit probability, equal to those obtained by averaging a single realization for a sufficiently long interval of time (time averages) or a sufficiently large region (volume averages).
We shall only consider ergodic random functions:
𝐴 =1
𝑉
𝑉
𝐴 𝑥, 𝑡 d3𝑥 =1
𝑇 0
𝑇
𝐴 𝑥, 𝑡 d𝑡
Time averageVolume averageEnsemble average
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2.2. Reynolds rules of averaging
Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912)
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Turbulent flows are random
Velocity 𝑣, pressure p, magnetic field 𝐵, density , etc.are random functions of position 𝑥 and time 𝑡.
For a random function A(x), define:
the average 𝐴 and fluctuations a: 𝐴 = 𝐴 + 𝑎, 𝑎 = 0,
the variance 𝜎𝐴2 = (𝐴 − 𝐴 )2 = 𝐴2 − 𝐴 2 = 𝑎2 (*),
the standard deviation (or the root-mean-square value) 𝜎𝐴.
(*) For the Gaussian smoothing this is not true: 𝜎𝐴2 ≠ 𝑎2 . See Germano, JFM,
238, 325, 1992
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2.3. Correlation and structure functions
The autocorrelation function of A(x):
a measure of relation between neighbouring fluctuations:
where hAi can depend on x.
The structure function of A(x):
The cross-correlation function of two random functions, A1(x), A2(x):
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Simulations of interstellar turbulence driven by supernova explosions (Gent et al., MNRAS, 2013)
The autocorrelation function of the Faraday depth
The structure function of the Faraday depth
Positive correlation
Anti-correlation
No correlation
𝑙 = |𝑥1 − 𝑥2|
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Structure functions can be calculated from
observations or numerical results more
accurately and with less computations than
autocorrelation functions,
but autocorrelation functions have a more
transparent intuitive meaning.
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Correlation and structure functions are only useful when applied to random functions.
For a deterministic function 𝐹(𝑥),
It often happens that an observed or computed variable is random at small scales but behaves deterministically at large scales. Then
extending its correlation or structure function to those large scales is meaningless and can be misleading.
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A random function A(x) is called stationary if its mean value, variance and other statistical properties are independent of x.
2.4. Stationary random functions
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Stationary random functions are ergodic
because different realizations have identical statistical properties.
Statistical properties of a stationary random function can be obtained from its single realization.
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For a stationary random function, with 𝑙 = |𝑥1 − 𝑥2|:
The correlation length:
The value of 𝐴(𝑥2) is predictable from 𝐴(𝑥1) when |𝑥1 − 𝑥2| ≪ 𝑙0and unpredictable otherwise: 𝐴(𝑥1) and 𝐴(𝑥2) are uncorrelated if |𝑥1 − 𝑥2| ≫ 𝑙0. (The most probable weather forecast:
tomorrow’s weather will be as today’s.)
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Exercise
Show that, for a stationary random function,
It is important to calculate the autocorrelation or structure function for sufficiently large values of the lag l.
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2.5. Spectral representation
Power spectrum, or spectral density of 𝐴(𝑥):the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation function:
In 3D, 𝑃(𝑘) is called the 3D spectrum,the energy spectrum 𝐸(𝑘) is obtained by averaging over alldirections in the k-space.
In the isotropic case, 𝑃 𝑘 = 𝑃(𝑘),
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2.6. Correlation versus statistical dependence
Correlations of random functions:
Correlation, B > 0: a1 large where a2 is large.
Anticorrelation, B < 0: a1 large where a2 is large (or A2 is small).
No correlation, B = 0: A1(x) and A2(x) are uncorrelated, and then 𝐴1𝐴2 = 𝐴1 𝐴2 .
Statistically independent random functions: their joint probability density is equal to the product of their respective probability densities, 𝑝 𝐴1, 𝐴2 = 𝑝1 𝐴1 𝑝2 𝐴2 .
Statistical independence: the values of one function do not affect the values of the other, and vice versa.
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Statistically independent functions are uncorrelated:
The reverse is not always true: uncorrelated functions are not necessarily statistically independent.
Statistical independence: 𝑝 𝐴1, 𝐴2 = 𝑝1 𝐴1 𝑝2 𝐴2 .
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Contours of joint probability density 𝑝(𝑢, 𝑣) for random variables 𝑢, 𝑣that are:
anticorrelated uncorrelated correlated
Uncorrelated functions are not necessarily statistically independent.
Contours of 𝑝(𝑢, 𝑣) for uncorrelated 𝑢, 𝑣that tend to inhibit each other, and so are statistically dependent on each other: 𝑢 and 𝑣 are seldom large simultaneously.
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(some) Things to remember
PDF = probability density function: 𝑝 𝑎 d𝑎 = the probability that the random variable 𝐴 takes a value in the interval 𝑎, 𝑎 + d𝑎 . Effectively, the histogram of 𝑎, normalized to the unit area,
−∞∞
𝑝 𝑎 d𝑎 = 1.
Gaussian smoothing (the convolution of a signal with a Gaussian kernel) does not satisfy the Reynolds rules of averaging.
Statistically independent random functions are always uncorrelated (and statistically dependent ones are correlated), but uncorrelated functions can be statistically mutually dependent.
A Gaussian random function [𝑎(𝑥) is a Gaussian random variable at any fixed 𝑥] is fully characterized by its (1) mean value, (2) standard deviation and (3) autocorrelation function.
For a Gaussian random function, lack of correlation does imply statistical independence.
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3
Phenomenology of fluid turbulence
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The Navier–Stokes equation,
known since 1823, probably contains all of turbulence (and much more),but the nature of turbulence remains one of the most importantunsolved problems in physics.
Notation
𝑣 = 𝑉 + 𝑢 = velocity, 𝑣 = 𝑉 = mean velocity,
𝜌 = density, 𝑝 = pressure, 𝜈 = kinematic viscosity,
𝐵 = 𝐵0 + 𝑏 = magnetic field, 𝐵 = 𝐵0 = mean magnetic field,
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Consider a 1D velocity field, 𝑣 = (𝑣 𝑥 , 0, 0), neglect pressure, 𝑝 = 0:
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3.1. Energy conservation
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A flow represented by a single Fourier mode initially:
so the inertia force drives small-scale motions, i.e., transfers kinetic energy to small scales, from wavenumber k to 2k, then from 2k to 4k, etc., resulting in the energy cascade in the k-space towards small scales.
3.2. Spectral energy transfer
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Flow complexity increases with the range of scales involved:
N = 1 N = 2 N = 3 N = 4
The flow becomes random (for all practical purposes, at least) as soon as the energy cascade produces a sufficiently wide range of scales.
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“. . . the water has eddying motions, one part of which is due to the principal current, the other to random and reverse motion.”
Leonardo da Vinci (1531)
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Jonathan Swift (1667–1745):
So, nat’ralists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller yet to bite ’em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind.
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Lewis Fry Richardson (1922):
Big whirls have little whirls, which feed on their velocity.
Little whirls have lesser whirls, and so on to viscosity.
1881–1953, born in Newcastle upon Tyne
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A necessary condition for turbulence
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Free shear layers become turbulent when Re > (3 − 5) × 103.
In the cool ISM, Re = 105 − 107 (Elmegreen & Scalo, 2004a),
hence expect the ISM to be turbulent,
if only there are suitable forces to drive the turbulence.
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3.1. Kolmogorov’s spectrum
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903–1987)
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Consider an incompressible, homogeneous, isotropic turbulent flow,
and those scales where viscosity is still unimportant, so energy is conserved.
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ln k
ln E(k)
k0 kd
k0 = energy injection scale(= integral scale correlation length),
kd = dissipation scale,
k0 < k < kd , the inertial range(the flow is controlled by inertia forces).
Kinetic energy is injected at k = k0 and cascades to larger k, to dissipate (be converted into heat) at k = kd.
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An important implication:
However small is viscosity, turbulent energy is converted into heat in a short tome of order of eddy turnover time.
Reducing viscosity does not change this but only makes the turbulent spectrum wider
(𝑘d becomes larger, 𝑙d = 2𝜋/𝑘d becomes smaller).
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Interstellar turbulence
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log P(k)
log k (m1)
The Big Power Law in the sky:3D electron density power spectrum in the ISM(Armstrong et al., ApJ, 433, 209, 1995)
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4.1. Energy content and energy sources
(Mac Low & Klessen 2004)
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4.2. Turbulence driven by supernovae
Supernova remnants: expanding bubblesof hot gas, magnetic fields and relativistic particles
Kepler’s SN 1604 (composite) Tycho SN 1572 (X-rays) Cas A (radio, 6 cm)
Wright et al., Astrophys. J. 518, 284, 1999
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SN explosions:
• energy release ESN = 1051 erg per SN event,
• one type II SN per 50 yr near the Sun (frequency SN = 0.02 yr−1),
• occur at (quasi) random times and positions.
Supernova blast wave expands at 104 km s−1 (Mach 103 for first 300 yr),
then pressure equilibrium after 106 yr,
then a hot gas bubble of 100 pc in size.
Supernova remnants: expanding bubbles of hot gas
that drive motions in the ambient gas
when their expansion speed reduces to the speed of sound
(i.e., when their internal pressure becomes equal to the external pressure).
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Conclusions
SNe are the most important source of interstellar turbulence;
the correlation scale of the turbulence is l0 = 50–100 pc;
the turbulent speed is comparable to the speed of sound in the ISM, 𝑣0 ≃ 10 km s−1, or can even exceed it.
Interstellar turbulence is transonic or supersonic, hence highly compressible, producing strong density fluctuations.
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4.3. Observational signatures of interstellar turbulence
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4.4. The role of turbulence in the iSM
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Alfvén wave turbulence
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5.1. Isotropic Alfvén wave turbulence
An ensemble of Alfvén waves, randomness from their nonlinear interactions, incompressible.
Iroshnikov, Sov. Astron., 7, 566,1964; Kraichnan, Phys. Fluids, 8, 1385, 1965
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(continued)
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5.2. Anisotropic Alfvén wave turbulence
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Combine the two equations to obtain the aspect ratio of the turbulent cells:
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Dynamos
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Dynamo action:
conversion of kinetic energy of a fluid or plasma flow into magnetic energy without any
externally driven electric currents.
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Mirror symmetry, vectors and pseudovectors
R. Feynman, Lecture Notes in Physics,https://readingfeynman.org/2014/05/09/cpt-symmetry-ii/
When mirrored, a polarvector changes its head, just as the whole space turns inside out.An axial vector (pseudovector) changes in a very different way: it is usually reversed in respect to the geometry of the whole space.
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Angular velocity and magnetic field are similar in that both are pseudovectors
To produce a magnetic field at a scale similar to the size of a physical system, the system must break its mirror symmetry.
Conclusion: to produce a large-scale magnetic field, any system must be asymmetric with respect to mirror reflection.
The most widespread asymmetry is due to rotation.
If 𝑎 and 𝑏 are polar vectors,
𝑎 + 𝑏 and 𝑣 = 𝑎 are polar vectors, 𝑎 ⋅ 𝑏 is a scalar,
but 𝑎 × 𝑏 and ∇ × 𝑎 are axial (pseudo-)vectors
and 𝑎 × 𝑏 ⋅ 𝑐 and 𝑎 ⋅ 𝛻 × 𝑏 are pseudoscalars.
Pseudoscalars change sign under mirror reflection.
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Helical flow 𝑣 is NOT mirror symmetric
(when reflected, the right-hand screw becomes the left-hand one),
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From Maxwell’s equations (for non-relativistic motions) and Ohm’s law:
6.1. The induction equation and dynamo action
𝑣 = velocity field,
𝐵 = magnetic field, = magnetic diffusivity.
pseudovectorvector
vector
pseudovector
vector
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Equivalently,
V
B (b)(a)
𝑣
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Suppose that 𝐵 is weak (𝐵2/8𝜋 ≪ 𝜌𝑣2/2). Then velocity field does not depend on magnetic field and the induction equation has solutions of the form 𝐵 = 𝐵ie
𝛾𝑡
𝐵i = 𝐵|𝑡=0, the initial (seed) magnetic field;Re 𝛾 = the rate of growth (Re 𝛾 > 0) or decay (Re 𝛾 < 0);Im 𝛾 = the oscillation frequency.
If 𝑣 = 0, 𝛾 ≃ −𝜂/𝐿2: Ohmic decay.
Under what conditions would magnetic field grow, Re 𝛾 > 0?Equivalently, under what conditions would the dynamo work?
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Magnetic Reynolds numbers of some astrophysical objects
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6.2. Stretch-Twist-Fold: a conceptual dynamo (Zeldovich’s rope dynamo)
𝐵 doubles after each cycle 𝑡0: 𝐵 ∝ 2𝑛 ∝ exp 𝛾𝑡 , 𝛾 = 𝑡0−1ln 2.
Where in this cycle is the mirror symmetry broken?
AND HEREHERE
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Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich, IAU Symp., Prague, 1968
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To be a dynamo, the flow must be three-dimensional:
2D flows cannot be a dynamo (it’s one of antidynamo theorems
– see an excellent discussion of Chris Jones, Section 1.8,
http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~cajones/LesHouches/chapter.pdf)
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6.3. The necessity of dynamos
Can galactic magnetic fields be primordial?
Do they need to be maintained by any ongoing dynamo action?
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Magnetic fields in a highly conducting turbulent medium
“If Rm >> 1, magnetic field decays only slowly and so does not necessarily need to be continuously maintained” – TRUE?
Conclusion: any (3D, MHD) magnetised, turbulent system must host a dynamo (unless the magnetic field is driven by external currents or decays).
Wrong, if the system is turbulent:magnetic energy is transferred along the spectrum and then dissipates in a time of order 𝑙0/𝑣0, and this time is much shorter than the Ohmic decay time 𝑙0
2/𝜂 when 𝑅m = 𝑙0𝑣0/𝜂 ≫ 1.
Even without turbulence, a sufficiently strong random magnetic field would drive random motions, and they will dissipate viscously to drain magnetic energy.
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6.4. Classification of dynamos
Laminar dynamos: the velocity field is laminar (deterministic).
Example: a swirling flow (as in a AGN jet): the Ponomarenko dynamo
𝑣 𝐵
Dobler et al., PRE, 65, 036311, 2002
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Turbulent dynamos: the velocity field is random
(not necessarily turbulent).
Fluctuation (small-scale) dynamo: random flow generates random magnetic field (whose scale does not exceed the scale of the flow).
Mean-field (large-scale) dynamo: random flow generates a mean magnetic field (whose scale exceeds the scale of the flow).
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Astrophysical objects: 𝑅m ≫ 1
Fast dynamos: Re 𝛾 → const as 𝑅m → ∞.
Slow dynamos: Re 𝛾 → 0 as 𝑅m → ∞.
Rm
𝑣0/𝑙0
The Ponomarenko dynamo The fluctuation dynamo
All known laminar dynamos are slow: main interest in fast dynamos
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6.4. The fluctuation dynamo
A random magnetic field grows if (1) the flow is random (e.g., turbulent) and (2) 𝑅m > 𝑅m,cr ≅ 102;
(3) a fast dynamo, 𝛾 ≃ 𝑣0/𝑙0.
The fluctuation dynamo produces magnetic filaments and ribbons: length (radius of curvature) of order 𝑙0,
thickness of order 𝑙0𝑅m,cr−1/2
≃ 𝑙0/10.
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Haugen et al., PRE 2004
Schekochihin et al., ApJ 2004
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Morphology of the magnetic structures
Wilkin et al., PRL, 2007: dynamo in an isotropic chaotic flow:
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6.5. The mean-field dynamo
Generates magnetic fields at a scale much larger than 𝑙0.
A fast dynamo.
Requires that the random flow has broken mirror symmetry.
The mirror symmetry breaks spontaneously due to rotation and stratification.
Notation from now on:
𝐵 = large-scale magnetic field,𝛽 ≃ 𝑙0𝑣0/3 =turbulent magnetic diffusivity,
𝑉 = large-scale velocity field.
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(A) Broken mirror symmetry (helicity) of interstellar turbulence: a consequence of angular momentum conservation in a rotating, stratified layer
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(B) Differential rotation: B produced from Br
(C) Helical turbulence:Br produced from B
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6.5.1. Basic equations
B(t; r) = ~B(t; r; z)eimÁ ; ² =h0
R0
¿ 1 :
Galactic discs are thin
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B(t; r) = ~B(t; r; z)eimÁ ; ² =h0
R0
¿ 1 ; G = rd
dr:
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Thin disc, axisymmetric solutions, α2ω-dynamo:
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Dipolar symmetry Quadrupolar symmetry
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6.5.2. Dynamo control parameters
NB! The Solar neighbourhood of the Milky Way, where these estimates apply, is not a typical galactic location.
Rotation =V0
r;
V0 ' 200 km/s; r ' 10 kpc;
ionised gas scale height
h ' 0:5 kpc;
turbulent velocity v0 ' 10 km/s;
turbulent scale l0 ' 0:1 kpc:
®0 'l20
h' 0:4 km/s;
¯ ' 13l0v0 ' 1026 cm2=s;
R® =®0h
¯' 0:6
R! =(r d=dr)h2
¯' ¡15
D = R®R! ' ¡µ3h
v0
¶2
' ¡10
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6.5.3. The “no-z” approximation (Subramanian & Mestel, 1993)
For solutions of a simple form, e.g., Br, cos(z/2h),
@
@z' 1
h;
@2
@z2' ¡ 1
h2:
Kinematic solutions: ~B = ~B0 exp(°t).
Thin disc, dimensional -dynamo equations:
@Br
@t= ¡ @
@z(®BÁ) + ¯
@2Br
@z2;
@BÁ
@t= GBr + ¯
@2BÁ
@z2:
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µ° +
¯
h2
¶B0r +
®
hB0Á = 0;
¡GB0r +
µ° +
¯
h2
¶B0Á = 0:
Nontrivial solutions exist if¯̄¯̄ ° + ¯=h2 ®=h
¡G ° + ¯=h2
¯̄¯̄ = 0;
i.e., ° ' ¯
h2(¡1 +
p¡D);
tan p =Br
BÁ
' ¡r
®
¡Gh = ¡
sR®
jR!j:
Magnetic ¯eld grows if D <» ¡1, with p ' ¡ arctan 14' ¡15±:
NB! Magnetic pitch angle in nonlinear solutions is generally smaller, so the agreement between the linear solutions and
observations may be a coincidence!
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MHD simulations of the SN-driven ISM:Gent, Shukurov, Sarson, Fletcher & Mantere, 2013, MNRAS
B
Tn
2 kpc
GALACTIC MID-PLANE