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Vorticity, Current Helicity and Alpha-effect for Magnetic-driven Turbulence in the Solar Convection Zone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

G. Rüdiger
G. Rüdiger*
Affiliation:
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany

Abstract

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The turbulent electromotive force as well as the kinetic and current helicities have been computed for a turbulence subject to magnetic buoyancy and global rotation. The dynamo-alpha is found as positive in the northern hemisphere and negative in the southern hemisphere and the kinetic helicity has just the same signs.

In agreement with the observations the current helicity is negative in the northern hemisphere and positive in the southern hemisphere. Our current helicities and alpha-effects are thus always out of phase. The signs of alpha-effect and both helicities exactly correspond to a numerical simulation by Brandenburg & Schmitt (1998).

Type
Session II: Convection Zone and Local Area Helioseismology
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 203: Recent Insights into the Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere: Highlights from Soho and Other Space Missions , 2001 , pp. 152 - 155
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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