Wednesday, November 14, 2012

1211.2962 (P. J. Käpylä et al.)

Flux concentrations in turbulent convection    [PDF]

P. J. Käpylä, A. Brandenburg, N. Kleeorin, M. J. Mantere, I. Rogachevskii
We present preliminary results from high resolution magneto-convection simulations where we find the formation of flux concentrations from an initially uniform magnetic field. We compute the effective magnetic pressure but find that the concentrations appear also in places where it is positive. The structures appear in roughly ten convective turnover times and live close to a turbulent diffusion time. The time scales are compatible with the negative effective magnetic pressure instability (NEMPI), although structure formation is not restricted to regions where the effective magnetic pressure is negative.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2962

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