Open AccessMagnetic Instabilities Driven by Sheared Toroidal and Poloidal Flows in the limit of B=0. Final Report
Author(s) -
Cary B. Foster
Publication year - 2000
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/766601
Subject(s) - dynamo , toroid , physics , magnetohydrodynamics , magnetic field , limit (mathematics) , planet , mechanics , kinetic energy , dynamo theory , astrophysics , magnetic energy , stars , classical mechanics , plasma , nuclear physics , magnetization , mathematical analysis , mathematics , quantum mechanics
The grant was used for startup activity in an experiment designed to address key questions related to the MHD dynamo, a process by which kinetic energy in flowing, conducting fluids can spontaneously be converted into magnetic energy. Dynamos have been invoked to explain the magnetic fields associated with the planets, stars and other astrophysical bodies. The experiment consists primarily of a 1 meter diameter sphere of liquid sodium with flows driven by mechanical propellers