Magnetic field generation by convective flows in a plane layer

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Wednesday, 20 April, 2005 - 14:30

Hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic convective attractors in a plane horizontal layer are investigated numerically. We consider Boussinesq Rayleigh-Benard convection assuming stress-free boundary conditions on horizontal boundaries and periodicity in horisontal directions. For the considered parameters fifteen different types of hydrodynamic attractors are found, out of which only 6 can act as kinematic dynamos. The final magnetohydrodynamic attractors
are either quasiperiodic or chaotic.

Speaker: 

Olga Podvigina (International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Moscow)