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Effect of a uniform magnetic field on nonlinear magnetocenvection in a rotating fluid spherical shell

 

作者: A. Sakuraba,   M. Kono,  

 

期刊: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics  (Taylor Available online 2000)
卷期: Volume 92, issue 3-4  

页码: 255-287

 

ISSN:0309-1929

 

年代: 2000

 

DOI:10.1080/03091920008203718

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

关键词: Magnetoconvection;Planetary dynamo;Rotating fluid

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

Dynamic interaction between magnetic field and fluid motion is studied through a numerical experiment of nonlinear three-dimensional magnetoconvection in a rapidly rotating spherical fluid shell to which a uniform magnetic field parallel to its spin axis is applied. The fluid shell is heated by internal heat sources to maintain thermal convection. The mean value of the magnetic Reynolds number in the fluid shell is 22.4 and 10 pairs of axially aligned vortex rolls are stably developed. We found that confinement of magnetic flux into anti-cyclonic vortex rolls was crucial on an abrupt change of the mode of magnetoconvection which occurred at Δ = 1 ∼ 2, where A is the Elsasser number. After the mode change, the fluid shell can store a large amount of magnetic flux in itself by changing its convection style, and the magnetostrophic balance among the Coriolis, Lorentz and pressure forces is established. Furthermore, the toroidal/poloidal ratio of the induced magnetic energy becomes less than unity, and the magnetized anti-cyclones are enlarged due to the effect of the magnetic force. Using these key ideas, we investigated the causes of the mode change of magnetoconvection. Considering relatively large magnetic Reynolds number and a rapid rotation rate of this model, we believe that these basic ideas used to interpret the present numerical experiment can be applied to the dynamics in the Earth's and other planetary cores.

 

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