The role of helicity and stretching in forced kinematic dynamos in a spherical shell

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Livermore, P W ^a   Hughes, D W ^a   Tobias, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; KINEMATICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STEADY FLOW;

HELICAL FLOW; HELICITY;

DC GENERATORS;

DC GENERATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; KINEMATICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STEADY FLOW;

EID: 34249984924     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2717947     Document Type: Article

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