Friday, April 5, 2013

1304.1252 (Youhei Masada et al.)

Effects of Penetrative Convection on Solar Dynamo    [PDF]

Youhei Masada, Kohei Yamada, Akira Kageyama
Spherical solar dynamo simulations are performed. Self-consistent, fully compressible magnetohydrodynamic system with a stably stratified layer below the convection zone are numerically solved with a newly developed simulation code based on the Yin-Yang grid. The effects of penetrative convection are studied by comparing two models with and without the stable layer. A solar-like differential rotation profile is established when the penetrative convection is taken into account without assuming any forcing. A large-scale magnetic field is also spontaneously organized in the underlying stable layer. The embedded field has a dipole symmetry about the equator and it shows polarity reversals in time.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1252

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