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Effects of small-scale dynamo and compressibility on the $Λ$ effect

Petri J. Käpylä

Published 2019-03-11Version 1

The $\Lambda$ effect describes a rotation-induced non-diffusive contribution to the Reynolds stress. It is commonly held responsible for maintaining the observed differential rotation of the Sun and other late-type stars. Here the sensitivity of the $\Lambda$ effect to small-scale magnetic fields and compressibility is studied by means of forced turbulence simulations either with anisotropic forcing in fully periodic cubes or in density-stratified domains with isotropic forcing. Effects of small-scale magnetic fields are studied in cases where the magnetic fields are self-consistently generated by a small-scale dynamo. The results show that small-scale magnetic fields lead to a quenching of the $\Lambda$ effect which is milder than in cases where also a large-scale field is present. The effect of compressibility on the $\Lambda$ effect is negligible in the range of Mach numbers from $0.015$ to $0.8$. Density stratification induces a marked anisotropy in the turbulence and a vertical $\Lambda$ effect if the forcing scale is roughly two times larger than the density scale height.

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Astron. Nachr
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