Magnetohydrodynamic activity inside a sphere
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Abstract: We present a computational method to solve the magnetohydrodynamic equations in spherical geometry. The technique is fully nonlinear and wholly spectral, and uses an expansion basis that is adapted to the geometry: Chandrasekhar-Kendall vector eigenfunctions of the curl. The resulting lower spatial resolution is somewhat offset by being able to build all the boundary conditions into each of the orthogonal expansion functions and by the disappearance of any difficulties caused by singularities at the center of the sphere. The results reported here are for mechanically and magnetically isolated spheres, although different boundary conditions could be studied by adapting the same method. The intent is to be able to study the nonlinear dynamical evolution of those aspects that are peculiar to the spherical geometry at only moderate Reynolds numbers. The code is parallelized, and will preserve to high accuracy the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) invariants of the system (global energy, magnetic helicity, cross helicity). Examples of results for selective decay and mechanically-driven dynamo simulations are discussed. In the dynamo cases, spontaneous flips of the dipole orientation are observed.
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- Magnetohydrodynamic flow around a sphere
- A pseudo-spectral method with volume penalisation for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in confined domains
- Broken ergodicity, magnetic helicity, and the MHD dynamo
- Fourier continuation method for incompressible fluids with boundaries
- Numerical Computation of Helical Waves in a Finite Circular Cylinder using Chebyshev Spectral Method
- Simulation of confined magnetohydrodynamic flows with Dirichlet boundary conditions using a pseudo-spectral method with volume penalization
- Navier-Stokes spectral solver in a sphere
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