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Bochner's theorem and mean-field electrodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

F. Krause  and
P. H. Roberts
F. Krause
Affiliation:
Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik, Potsdam, der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR.
P. H. Roberts
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, England.
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Central to the study of electromagnetic induction in turbulently moving conductors is the evolution of the ensemble averaged field, and so the subject of “mean field electrodynamics” has been born. It has provided a particularly fruitful approach to the dynamo problem, that is the study of the self-excitation of magnetic field by a moving fluid. It has been shown by Steenbeck, Krause and Rädler, in studies dating from 1966, that regeneration of field is efficient when the motions are sufficiently vigorous and lack mirror-symmetry. Using a commonly accepted approximation of the subject (the neglect of third order cumulants) which is valid when the correlation length and/or the correlation time of the turbulence are sufficiently small, and paying proper regard to a theorem due to Bochner, it is shown here that mirror-symmetric homogeneous turbulence cannot be regenerative.

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Mathematika , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , June 1973 , pp. 24 - 33
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Copyright © University College London 1973

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