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astro-ph2000

Sheared helical turbulence and the helicity constraint in large-scale dynamos

A. Bigazzi, A. Brandenburg, K. Subramanian

The effect of shear on the growth of large scale magnetic fields in helical turbulence is investigated. The resulting large-scale magnetic field is also helical and continues to ev…

astro-ph2000

The inverse cascade in turbulent dynamos

Axel Brandenburg

The emergence of a large scale magnetic field from randomly forced isotropic strongly helical flows is discussed in terms of the inverse cascade of magnetic helicity and the alpha-…

astro-ph2000

Two-dimensional disk dynamos with vertical outflows into a halo

B. von Rekowski, W. Dobler, A. Shukurov +1

We study the effects of vertical outflows on mean-field dynamos in disks. These outflows could be due to thermal winds or magnetic buoyancy. We analyse numerical solutions of the n…

astro-ph2000

The solar dynamo: old, recent, and new problems

Axel Brandenburg

A number of problems of solar and stellar dynamo theory are briefly reviewed and the current status of possible solutions is discussed. Results of direct numerical simulations are…

astro-ph2000

Numerical simulations of turbulent dynamos

Axel Brandenburg

Using a periodic box calculation it is shown that, owing to helicity conservation, a large scale field can only develop on a resistive timescale. This behaviour can be reproduced b…

astro-ph2000

Large scale dynamos with ambipolar diffusion nonlinearity

Axel Brandenburg, Kandaswamy Subramanian

It is shown that ambipolar diffusion as a toy nonlinearity leads to very similar behaviour of large scale turbulent dynamos as full MHD. This is demonstrated using both direct simu…