Fauto Cattaneo, Eun-Jin Kim, Michael Proctor, and Louis Tao

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 75(8), 1522-1525 (1995)
Abstract. The ratio R_1 between the average magnetic energy and the square-averaged flux plays an important role in the study of nonlinear dynamos, as a measure of the efficiency of a dynamo at generating flux. For large values of R_m, R_1 displays a scaling behavior of the type R_1~ R_m^n, where R_m is the magnetic Reynolds number. We show by direct numerical evaluation that n depends sensitively on the flow complexity for small-scale dynamos. Furthermore, by relating n to the cancellation exponent and the correlation dimension of the magnetic field, we argue that n is not likely to be close to zero in general.
(C) 1995 The American Physical Society

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Louis Tao, September 2000, Applied Mathematics Laboratory, CNS, New York, NY 10012