Solar and Planetary Dynamos

Herausgeber: Matthews, P. C.; Rucklidge, A. M.; Proctor, M. R. E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume represents a comprehensive record of research into the theory of dynamos.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780521054157
• ISBN-10: 052105415X
• Artikelnr.: 23366938

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Magnetic noise and the galactic dynamo
2. On the oscillation in model Z
3. Nonlinear dynamos in a spherical shell
4. The onset of dynamo action in alpha-lambda dynamos
5. Multifractality, near-singularities and the role of stretching in turbulence
6. Note on perfect fast dynamo action in a large-amplitude SFS map
7. A thermally driven disc dynamo
8. Magnetic instabilities in rapidly rotating systems
9. Modes of a flux ring lying in the equator of a star
10. A nonaxisymmetric dynamo in toroidal geometry
11. Simulating the interaction of convection with magnetic fields in the sun
12. Experimental aspects of a laboratory scale liquid sodium dynamo model
13. Influence of the period of an ABC flow on its dynamo action
14. Numerical calculations of dynamos for ABC and related flows
15. Incompressible Euler equations
16. On the quasimagnetostrophic asymptotic approximation related to solar activity
17. Simple dynamical fast dynamos
18. A numerical study of dynamos in spherical shells with conducting boundaries
19. Non-axisymmetric shear layers in a rotating spherical shell
20. Testing for dynamo action
21. Alpha-quenching in cylindrical magnetoconvection
22. On the stretching of line elements in fluids: an approach from different geometry
23. Instabilities of tidally and precessionally induced flows
24. Probability distribution of passive scalars with nonlinear mean gradient
25. Magnetic fluctuations in fast dynamos
26. A statistical description of MHD turbulence in laboratory plasma
27. Compressible magnetoconvection in three dimensions
28. The excitation of nonaxisymmetric magnetic fields in galaxies
29. Localized magnetic fields in a perfectly conducting fluid
30. Turbulent dynamo and the geomagnetic secular variation
31. On-off intermittency: general description and feedback model
32. Dynamo action in a nearly integrable chaotic flow
33. The dynamo mechanism in the deep convection zone of the sun
34. Shearing instabilities in magnetoconvection
35. On the role of rotation of the internal core relative to the mantle
36. Evolution of magnetic fields in a swirling jet
37. Analytic fast dynamo solution for a two-dimensional pulsed flow
38. On magnetic dynamos in thin accretion disks around compact and young stars
39. The strong field branch of the Childress-Soward dynamo
40. Evidence for the suppression of the alpha-effect by weak magnetic fields
41. Turbulent magnetic transport effects and their relation to magnetic field intermittency
42. Proving the existence of negative variation of electrical conductivity
43. Spherical inertial oscillation and convection
44. Hydrodynamics stability of the ABC flow
45. Dynamos with ambipolar diffusion
Subject index.