A route to magnetic field reversals: an example of an ABC-forced nonlinear dynamo

DOI10.1080/0309192031000119740zbMATH Open1206.86036arXivphysics/0107029OpenAlexW2017651619MaRDI QIDQ3080145FDOQ3080145

Authors: Olga Podvigina 

Publication date: 5 March 2011

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We are investigating numerically the non-linear behavior of a space-periodic MHD system with ABC forcing. Most computations are performed for magnetic Reynolds numbers increasing from 0 to 60 and a fixed kinematic Reynolds number, small enough for the trivial solution with a zero magnetic field to be stable to velocity perturbations. At the critical magnetic Reynolds number for the onset of instability of the trivial solution the dominant eigenvalue of the kinematic dynamo problem is real. In agreement with the bifurcation theory new steady states with non-vanishing magnetic field appear in this bifurcation. Subsequent bifurcations are investigated. A regime is detected, where chaotic variations of the magnetic field orientation (analogous to magnetic field reversals) are observed in the temporal evolution of the system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0107029

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zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationsreversalsnonlinear magnetic dynamo

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geo-electricity and geomagnetism (86A25) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

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