Non-local effects in the mean-field disc dynamo. II Numerical and asymptotic solutions

DOI10.1080/03091920410001700797zbMATH Open1206.85026arXivastro-ph/0309667OpenAlexW3106042701MaRDI QIDQ3080174FDOQ3080174

Authors: Ashley P. Willis, Andrew M. Soward, A. Shukurov, D. Sokoloff 

Publication date: 5 March 2011

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

Abstract: The thin-disc global asymptotics are discussed for axisymmetric mean-field dynamos with vacuum boundary conditions allowing for non-local terms arising from a finite radial component of the mean magnetic field at the disc surface. This leads to an integro-differential operator in the equation for the radial distribution of the mean magnetic field strength, $Q(r)$ in the disc plane at a distance $r$ from its centre; an asymptotic form of its solution at large distances from the dynamo active region is obtained. Numerical solutions of the integro-differential equation confirm that the non-local effects act similarly to an enhanced magnetic diffusion. This leads to a wider radial distribution of the eigensolution and faster propagation of magnetic fronts, compared to solutions with the radial surface field neglected. Another result of non-local effects is a slowly decaying algebraic tail of the eigenfunctions outside the dynamo active region, $Q(r)sim{r}^{-4}$, which is shown to persist in nonlinear solutions where $alpha$-quenching is included. The non-local nature of the solutions can affect the radial profile of the regular magnetic field in spiral galaxies and accretion discs at large distances from the centre.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309667

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionsaccretion discsgalactic magnetic fieldsmean-field dynamosthin-disc asymptotics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

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