Onset of plane layer magnetoconvection at low Ekman number

DOI10.1063/1.4934532MaRDI QIDQ3456955zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kélig Aujogue, Alban Pothérat, Binod Sreenivasan

Publication date 10 December 2015

Published in Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0827

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free convection (76R10) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Abstract: We study the onset of magnetoconvection between two infinite horizontal planes subject to a vertical magnetic field aligned with background rotation. In order to gain insight into the convection taking place in the Earth's tangent cylinder (TC), we target regimes of asymptotically strong rotation. The critical Rayleigh number $R{a}_c$ and critical wavenumber are computed numerically by solving the linear stability problem in a systematic way. A parametric study is conducted, varying the Ekman number, $E$ (ratio of viscous to Coriolis forces) and the Elsasser number, $Lambda$ (ratio of the Lorentz force to the Coriolis force). $E$ is varied from $10^{-9}$ to $10^{-2}$ and $Lambda$ from $10^{-3}$ to $1$. Apply to arbitrary thermal and magnetic Prandtl numbers, our results verify and confirm previous experimental and theoretical results showing the existence of two distinct unstable modes at low values of $E$ one being controlled by the magnetic field, the other being controlled by viscosity (often called the viscous mode). Asymptotic scalings for the onset of these modes have been numerically confirmed and precisely quantified. We show that with no-slip boundary conditions, the asymptotic behaviour is reached for $E<10^{-6}$ and establish a map in the $(E,Lambda)$ plane. We distinguish regions where convection sets in either in the magnetic mode or in the viscous mode. Our analysis gives the regime in which the transition between magnetic and viscous modes may be observed. We also show that within the asymptotic regime, the role played by the kinematic boundary conditions is minimal.

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