Issue |
EPL
Volume 82, Number 2, April 2008
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Article Number | 29001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/82/29001 | |
Published online | 07 April 2008 |
Effect of magnetic boundary conditions on the dynamo threshold of von Kármán swirling flows
1
Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, École Normale Supérieure CNRS - 24 rue Lhomond, F-75005 Paris, France, EU
2
Laboratoire de Radioastronomie, École Normale Supérieure CNRS - 24 rue Lhomond, F-75005 Paris, France, EU
3
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris - Paris, France, EU
4
U.C.L.A., Physics Department - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Corresponding author: christophe.gissinger@lps.ens.fr
Received:
25
February
2008
Accepted:
26
March
2008
We study the effect of different boundary conditions on the kinematic dynamo threshold of von Kármán type swirling flows in a cylindrical geometry. Using an analytical test flow, we model different boundary conditions: insulating walls all over the flow, effect of sodium at rest on the cylinder side boundary, effect of sodium behind the impellers, effect of impellers or side wall made of a high-magnetic-permeability material. We find that using high-magnetic-permeability boundary conditions decreases the dynamo threshold, the minimum being achieved when they are implemented all over the flow.
PACS: 91.25.Cw – Origins and models of the magnetic field; dynamo theories / 47.65.-d – Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics
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