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Generation of large-scale vorticity in rotating stratified turbulence with inhomogeneous helicity: mean-field theory

Part of: 50 years of Mean Field Electrodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2018

N. Kleeorin  and
I. Rogachevskii
N. Kleeorin
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P. O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Roslagstullsbacken 23, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
I. Rogachevskii*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P. O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Roslagstullsbacken 23, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

We discuss a mean-field theory of the generation of large-scale vorticity in a rotating density stratified developed turbulence with inhomogeneous kinetic helicity. We show that the large-scale non-uniform flow is produced due to either a combined action of a density stratified rotating turbulence and uniform kinetic helicity or a combined effect of a rotating incompressible turbulence and inhomogeneous kinetic helicity. These effects result in the formation of a large-scale shear, and in turn its interaction with the small-scale turbulence causes an excitation of the large-scale instability (known as a vorticity dynamo) due to a combined effect of the large-scale shear and Reynolds stress-induced generation of the mean vorticity. The latter is due to the effect of large-scale shear on the Reynolds stress. A fast rotation suppresses this large-scale instability.

Keywords

astrophysical plasmasplasma nonlinear phenomena
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 84 , Issue 3 , June 2018 , 735840303
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© Cambridge University Press 2018 

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