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Turbulent magnetic helicity fluxes in solar convective zone
Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Mech Engn, POB 653, IL-8410530 Beer Sheva, Israel.;Inst Continuous Media Mech, Lab Phys Hydrodynam, Korolyov Str 1, Perm 614013, Russia..
Nordita SU; Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Mech Engn, POB 653, IL-8410530 Beer Sheva, Israel..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7308-4768
2022 (English)In: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ISSN 0035-8711, E-ISSN 1365-2966, Vol. 515, no 4, p. 5437-5448Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Combined action of helical motions of plasma (the kinetic alpha effect) and non-uniform (differential) rotation is a key dynamo mechanism of solar and galactic large-scale magnetic fields. Dynamics of magnetic helicity of small-scale fields is a crucial mechanism in a non-linear dynamo saturation where turbulent magnetic helicity fluxes allow to avoid catastrophic quenching of the alpha effect. The convective zone of the Sun and solar-like stars, as well as galactic discs, are the source for production of turbulent magnetic helicity fluxes. In the framework of the mean-field approach and the spectral tau approximation, we derive turbulent magnetic helicity fluxes using the Coulomb gauge in a density-stratified turbulence. The turbulent magnetic helicity fluxes include non-gradient and gradient contributions. The non-gradient magnetic helicity flux is proportional to a non-linear effective velocity (which vanishes in the absence of the density stratification) multiplied by small-scale magnetic helicity, while the gradient contributions describe turbulent magnetic diffusion of the small-scale magnetic helicity. In addition, the turbulent magnetic helicity fluxes contain source terms proportional to the kinetic alpha effect or its gradients, and also contributions caused by the large-scale shear (solar differential rotation). We have demonstrated that the turbulent magnetic helicity fluxes due to the kinetic alpha effect and its radial derivative in combination with the non-linear magnetic diffusion of the small-scale magnetic helicity are dominant in the solar convective zone.

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Oxford University Press (OUP) , 2022. Vol. 515, no 4, p. 5437-5448
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MHD, Sun: dynamo, Sun: interior, Sun: magnetic fields, turbulence
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Theoretical Chemistry
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316924DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2141ISI: 000841942900013Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85139373438OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-316924DiVA, id: diva2:1693619
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Available from: 2022-09-07 Created: 2022-09-07 Last updated: 2023-09-25Bibliographically approved

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