Turbulent magnetohydrodynamic dynamo action in a spherically bounded von Kármán flow at small magnetic Prandtl numbers

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Reuter, Klaus ^a   Jenko, Frank ^a   Forest, Cary B ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FORCES; DYNAMO ACTION; DYNAMO MODELS; LIQUID SODIUM; MAGNETIC PRANDTL NUMBERS; MAGNETIC REYNOLDS NUMBER; MEAN FLOW; SETUP MODELS; TURBULENT FLUCTUATION; VELOCITY FIELD; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; LIQUID METALS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SODIUM; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

EID: 79960758610     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/7/073019     Document Type: Article

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