Directory: ${PENCIL_HOME}/samples/2d-tests/chiral_dynamo SVN Id: $Id$ Maintainer: Jennifer Schober Added: 28-Jul-2020 Status: succeeds # One of [succeeds|failing since |obsolete| ...] Recommended resolution: 32x32x1 for nu=eta=1e-2 is fine. Comments: This is a chiral MHD run with an initial seed magnetic field and an initial chiral asymmetry (mu5). The nonzero mu5 leads to an instability in the magnetic field, that has a maximum growth rate of eta*mu5^2/4 rate which is attained on the wavenumber k=mu5/2. Therefore, to have this chiral dynamo instability within the box, the initial value of mu5 should be between 1 and approximately less than 16 (for a resolution of 32). References: Brandenburg, A.; Schober, J.; Rogachevskii, I.;Kahniashvili, T.; Boyarsky, A.; Fröhlich, J.; Ruchayskiy, O.; Kleeorin, N.: 2017, ``The Turbulent Chiral Magnetic Cascade in the Early Universe'', The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 845, Issue 2, article id. L21 Schober, J.; Rogachevskii, I.; Brandenburg, A.; Boyarsky, A.; Fröhlich, J.; Ruchayskiy, O.; Kleeorin, N.: 2018, ``Laminar and Turbulent Dynamos in Chiral Magnetohydrodynamics. II. Simulations'', The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 858, Issue 2, article id. 124 Schober, J.; Brandenburg, A.; Rogachevskii, I.: 2020, ``Chiral fermion asymmetry in high-energy plasma simulations'', Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Volume 114, Issue 1-2, p.106-129