Effects due to induced azimuthal eddy currents in a self-exciting Faraday disk homopolar dynamo with a nonlinear series motor. I. Two special cases

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 287-301

  Hide, Raymond ^a   Moroz, Irene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bifurcation theory; Nonlinear quenching; Self exciting dynamos

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346964835     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00107-4     Document Type: Article

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