The influence of shear flow on the alpha- and gamma-effects in helical MHD turbulence

作者:Leprovost Nicolas*; Kim Eun Jin
来源:Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 2010, 104(2-3): 167-182.
DOI:10.1080/03091920903393828

摘要

We investigate the -effect and the turbulent transport of magnetic flux (-effect) by considering a turbulence driven by an isotropic helical forcing in the presence of a background large-scale shear flow. Due to shear flow, the turbulence is highly anisotropic. The effect of this shear-induced anisotropy on the structure of the electromotive force is computed self-consistently. We show that for weak shear, magnetic pumping (-effect) appears, and the -effect becomes highly anisotropic: the component of the -effect in the direction of the shear is smaller than the one in the direction perpendicular to the shear with non-vanishing non-diagonal components. However, a sufficiently strong shear leads to severe quenching of the - and -effects due to shear stabilisation.

  • 出版日期2010