The hottest hot Jupiters may host atmospheric dynamos

TM Rogers, JN McElwaine - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Hot Jupiters have proven themselves to be a rich class of exoplanets that test our theories of
planetary evolution and atmospheric dynamics under extreme conditions. Here, we present …

Fury: an experimental dynamo with anisotropic electrical conductivity

T Alboussière, F Plunian… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We report measurements of dynamo action in a new experimental set-up, named Fury,
based on the use of an anisotropic electrical conductivity. It consists of a copper rotor …

Fast and furious dynamo action in the anisotropic dynamo

F Plunian, T Alboussière - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
In the limit of large magnetic Reynolds numbers, it is shown that a smooth differential
rotation can lead to fast dynamo action, provided that the electrical conductivity or magnetic …

Magnetohydrodynamical Torsional Oscillations from Thermoresistive Instability in Hot Jupiters

R Hardy, P Charbonneau… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Hot Jupiter atmospheres may be subject to a thermoresistive instability where an increase in
the electrical conductivity due to ohmic heating results in runaway of the atmospheric …

Mean-field dynamo due to spatio-temporal fluctuations of the turbulent kinetic energy

K Gopalakrishnan, NK Singh - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
In systems where the standard $\alpha $ effect is inoperative, one often explains the
existence of mean magnetic fields by invoking the 'incoherent $\alpha $ effect', which …

Anomalous magnetohydrodynamics in the extreme relativistic domain

M Giovannini - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
The evolution equations of anomalous magnetohydrodynamics are derived in the extreme
relativistic regime and contrasted with the treatment of hydromagnetic nonlinearities …

Alpha tensor and dynamo excitation in turbulent fluids with anisotropic conductivity fluctuations

O Gressel, G Rüdiger, D Elstner - Astronomische Nachrichten, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A mean‐field theory of the electrodynamics of a turbulent fluid is formulated under the
assumption that the molecular electric conductivity is correlated with the turbulent velocity …

Effects of radial conductivity variation on the Ponomarenko dynamo

S Verma, K Seshasayanan - Physical Review E, 2025 - APS
We study the effects of conductivity variation on the Ponomarenko dynamo. Taking
monotonically increasing, decreasing and sinusoidally varying radial profiles, we study the …

Enhanced dynamo growth in nonhomogeneous conducting fluids

F Marcotte, B Gallet, F Pétrélis, C Gissinger - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We address magnetic-field generation by dynamo action in systems with inhomogeneous
electrical conductivity and magnetic permeability. More specifically, we first show that the …

Electrodynamics of turbulent fluids with fluctuating electric conductivity

G Rüdiger, M Küker, PJ Käpylä - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Consequences of fluctuating microscopic conductivity in mean-field electrodynamics of
turbulent fluids are formulated and discussed. If the conductivity fluctuations are assumed to …