Computation of kinematic and magnetic \alpha-effect and eddy diffusivity tensors by Pad\'e approximation

DOI10.3390/FLUIDS4020110arXiv1906.01423WikidataQ114030497 ScholiaQ114030497MaRDI QIDQ6319935FDOQ6319935

Authors: S. M. Gama, R. A. Chertovskih, Vladislav Zheligovsky 

Publication date: 4 June 2019

Abstract: We present examples of Pad'e approximation of the $alpha$-effect and eddy viscosity/diffusivity tensors in various flows. Expressions for the tensors derived in the framework of the standard multiscale formalism are employed. Algebraically the simplest case is that of a two-dimensional parity-invariant six-fold rotation-symmetric flow, where eddy viscosity is negative, indicating intervals of large-scale instability of the flow. Turning to the kinematic dynamo problem for three-dimensional flows of an incompressible fluid, we explore application of Pad'e approximants for computation of tensors of magnetic $alpha$-effect and, for parity-invariant flows, of magnetic eddy diffusivity. We construct Pad'e approximants of the tensors expanded in power series in the inverse molecular diffusivity $1/eta$ around $1/eta=0$. This yields the values of the dominant growth rate due to the action of the $alpha$-effect or eddy diffusivity to satisfactory accuracy for $eta$, several dozen times smaller than the threshold, above which the power series is convergent. For one sample flow, we observe eddy diffusivity tending to negative infinity when $eta$ tends from above to the point of the onset of small-scale dynamo action in a symmetry-invariant subspace where a neutral small-scale magnetic mode resides. However, 49 first coefficients in the power series in $1/eta$ prove insufficient for Pad'e approximants to reproduce this behaviour. We do computations in Fortran in the standard `double' (real*8) and extended `quadruple' (real*16) precision, as well as perform symbolic calculations in Mathematica.

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