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dc.contributor.authorJingade, Naveen-
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Nishant K.-
dc.contributor.authorSridhar, S.-
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-05T18:48:52Z-
dc.date.available2019-03-05T18:48:52Z-
dc.date.issued2018-12-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Plasma Physics, Volume 84, 735840601, p20en_US
dc.identifier.issn0022-3778-
dc.identifier.issn1469-7807 (Online)-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/7176-
dc.descriptionRestricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)en_US
dc.description.abstractWe explore the growth of large-scale magnetic fields in a shear flow, due to felicity fluctuations with a finite correlation time, through a study of the Kraichnan-Moffatt model of zero-mean stochastic fluctuations of the α parameter of dynamo theory. We derive a linear integrate-differential equation for the evolution of large-scale magnetic field, using the first-order smoothing approximation and the Galilean in variance of the α-statistics. This enables construction of a model that is non-perturbative in the shearing rate S and the α-correlation time τα. After a brief review of the salient features of the exactly solvable white-noise limit, we consider the case of small but non-zero τα. When the large-scale magnetic field varies slowly, the evolution is governed by a partial differential equation. We present modal solutions and conditions for the exponential growth rate of the large-scale magnetic field, whose drivers are the Kraichnan diffusivity, Moffatt drift, Shear and a non-zero correlation time. Of particular interest is dynamo action when the α-fluctuations are weak; i.e. when the Kraichnan diffusivity is positive. We show that in the absence of Moffatt drift, shear does not give rise to growing solutions. But shear and Moffatt drift acting together can drive large scale dynamo action with growth rate γ∝|S|.en_US
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dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu//#abs/2018JPlPh..84f7301J/abstracten_US
dc.relation.urihttps://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04567en_US
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377818001174en_US
dc.rights2018 Cambridge University Pressen_US
dc.subjectastrophysical plasmasen_US
dc.subjectAstrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxiesen_US
dc.subjectPhysics - Plasma Physicsen_US
dc.titleGeneration of large-scale magnetic fields due to fluctuating in shearing systemsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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