The Kraichnan-Kazantsev dynamo (Q1600058)

Using the Kraichnan-Kazantsev model (Kazantzev's quantum formalism), the author investigates the dynamo effect by applying Maxwell equations to an electrically conducting, turbulent and helicity-free flow. The main aim is to examine the dependence of dynamo on magnetic Reynolds number and on Prandtl number. The random velocity field is considered as incompressible, Gaussian, homogeneous, isotropic and \(\delta\)-correlated in time. The most results are obtained by numerical variation-iteration method. The author determines the growth rate and the spatial structure of magnetic field. It is shown that the magnetic Reynolds number determines the conditions of dynamo generation, but the Prandtl number influences the magnetic field correlation length and its growth rate. The growth rate is controlled by the small-scale Joule dissipation and by viscous characteristic time. The dependence of magnetic growth rate on the Prandtl number is found to be non-monotone.