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Three dimensional simulations of Hall magnetohydrodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2011

Daniel O. Gómez*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, C.C. 67 - Suc. 28, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina email: [email protected] Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA), Ciudad Universitaria, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Abstract

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Turbulent flows take place in a large variety of astrophysical objects, and often times are the source of dynamo generated magnetic fields. Much of the progress in our understanding of dynamo mechanisms, has been made within the theoretical framework of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). However, for sufficiently diffuse media, the Hall effect eventually becomes non-negligible.

We present results from simulations of the Hall-MHD equations. The simulations are performed with a pseudospectral code to achieve exponentially fast convergence. We study the role of the Hall effect in the dynamo efficiency for different values of the Hall parameter.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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