Radial-flow dynamo energy bound ($q^2\ge {\eta }^{2}D/M$)

Let a solenoidal flow be confined to a sphere $V$, with the insulating boundary condition for the radial magnetic scalar. Define $N={\int }_V{P}^2$, $D={\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^3}|\nabla P{|}^2$, $M={\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^3}|\mathbf{B}{|}^2$ and $q={\max }_V|\mathbf{u}\cdot \mathbf{x}|$. Integration by parts inside and outside the sphere givesThe Cauchy-Schwarz inequality therefore makes $q^2\ge {\eta }^{2}D/M$ necessary whenever $N^{\prime }\ge 0$ and $D>0$. A uniform strict violation with a positive gap forces decay, using a Sobolev inequality to bound $N$ by a constant times $D$. A bounded statistically steady field instead requires $q_{\ast }^2\ge {\eta }^2⟨D⟩/⟨M⟩$, with $q_{\ast }={\sup }_{t}q(t)$. This is a necessary condition for dynamo action, not a sufficient criterion or a pointwise assertion at every instant of an arbitrary time-dependent solution.

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