Can stellar dynamos be modelled in less than three dimensions?
Abstract
Nonlinear alpha-omega dynamos in different geometries are compared. The importance of radial structure is investigated via comparison of axisymmetric one-dimensional models with their two-dimensional counterparts. For the two-dimensional nonaxisymmetric extension of the one-dimensional model, a finite-amplitude mixed solution with nonaxisymmetric contributions is found.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- April 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990A&A...230..463J
- Keywords:
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- Dynamo Theory;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Stellar Magnetic Fields;
- Stellar Models;
- Two Dimensional Models;
- Floquet Theorem;
- Light Curve;
- Strange Attractors;
- Astrophysics