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Title

Solar and planetary dynamos : proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, September 1992 / edited by M.R.E. Proctor, P.C. Matthews and A.M. Rucklidge.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Proctor, M. R. E.
• Matthews, P. C.
• Rucklidge, A. M.
• Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Description

xii, 366 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Publications of the Newton Institute.

Subject

• Solar system > Congresses

Contents

• Magnetic Noise and the Galactic Dynamo / S. W. Anderson and R. M. Kulsrud -- On the Oscillation in Model Z / A. P. Anufriev, I. Cupal and P. Hejda -- Nonlinear Dynamos in a Spherical Shell / C. F. Barenghi -- The Onset of Dynamo Action in Alpha-lambda Dynamos / D. M. Barker -- Multifractality, Near-singularities and the Role of Stretching in Turbulence / A. Brandenburg, I. Procaccia, D. Segel, A. Vincent and M. Manzini -- Note on Perfect Fast Dynamo Action in a Large-amplitude SFS Map / S. Childress -- A Thermally Driven Disc Dynamo / A. Y. K. Chui and H. K. Moffatt -- Magnetic Instabilities in Rapidly Rotating Systems / D. R. Fearn -- Modes of a Flux Ring Lying in the Equator of a Star / A. Ferriz-Mas and M. Schussler -- A Nonaxisymmetric Dynamo in Toroidal Geometry / M. Foth -- Simulating the Interaction of Convection with Magnetic Fields in the Sun / P. A. Fox, M. L. Theobald and S. Sofia -- Experimental Aspects of a Laboratory Scale Liquid Sodium Dynamo Model / A. Gailitis.
• Influence of the Period of an ABC Flow on its Dynamo Action / B. Galanti, A. Pouquet and P. L. Sulem -- Numerical Calculations of Dynamos for ABC and Related Flows / D. J. Galloway and N. R. O'Brian -- Local Helicity, a Material Invariant for the Odd-dimensional Incompressible Euler Equations / S. Gama and U. Frisch -- On the Quasimagnetostrophic Asymptotic Approximation Related to Solar Activity / M. Ghizaru -- Simple Dynamical Fast Dynamos / A. D. Gilbert, N. F. Otani and S. Childress -- A Numerical Study of Dynamos in Spherical Shells with Conducting Boundaries / W. Hirsching and F. H. Busse -- Non-axisymmetric Shear Layers in a Rotating Spherical Shell / R. Hollerbach and M. R. E. Proctor -- Testing for Dynamo Action / D. W. Hughes -- Alpha-quenching in Cylindrical Magnetoconvection / C. A. Jones and D. J. Galloway -- On the Stretching of Line Elements in Fluids: an Approach from Differential Geometry / T. Kambe, Y. Hattori and V. Zeitlin.
• Instabilities of Tidally and Precessionally Induced Flows / R. R. Kerswell -- Probability Distribution of Passive Scalars with Nonlinear Mean Gradient / Y. Kimura -- Magnetic Fluctuations in Fast Dynamos / R. Kulsrud and S. Anderson -- A Statistical Description of MHD Turbulence in Laboratory Plasmas / A. Lazarian -- Compressible Magnetoconvection in Three Dimensions / P. C. Matthews -- The Excitation of Nonaxisymmetric Magnetic Fields in Galaxies / D. Moss and A. Brandenburg -- Localized Magnetic Fields in a Perfectly Conducting Fluid / M. Nunez -- Turbulent Dynamo and the Geomagnetic Secular Variation / O. V. Pilipenko, B. G. Zinchenko and D. D. Sokoloff -- On-Off Intermittency: General Description and Feedback Model / N. Platt -- Dynamo Action in a Nearly Integrable Chaotic Flow / Y. Ponty, A. Pouquet, V. Rom-Kedar and P. L. Sulem -- The Dynamo Mechanism in the Deep Convection Zone of the Sun / T. Prautzsch -- Shearing Instabilities in Magnetoconvection / A. M. Rucklidge and P. C. Matthews.
• On the Role of Rotation of the Internal Core Relative to the Mantle / A. Ruzmaikin -- Evolution of Magnetic Fields in a Swirling Jet / A. M. Shukurov and D. D. Sokoloff -- Analytic Fast Dynamo Solution for a Two-dimensional Pulsed Flow / A. M. Soward -- On Magnetic Dynamos in Thin Accretion Disks Around Compact and Young Stars / T. F. Stepinski -- The Strong Field Branch of the Childress-Soward Dynamo / M. G. St. Pierre -- Evidence for the Suppression of the Alpha-effect by Weak Magnetic Fields / L. Tao, F. Cattaneo and S. I. Vainshtein -- Turbulent Magnetic Transport Effects and their Relation to Magnetic Field Intermittency / S. I. Vainshtein, L. Tao, F. Cattaneo and R. Rosner -- Proving the Existence of Negative Isotropic Eddy Viscosity / M. Vergassola, S. Gama and U. Frisch -- Dynamo Action Induced by Lateral Variation of Electrical Conductivity / J. Wicht and F. H. Busse -- Spherical Inertial Oscillation and Convection / K. Zhang.
• Hydrodynamic Stability of the ABC Flow / O. Zheligovsky and A. Pouquet -- Dynamos with Ambipolar Diffusion / E. G. Zweibel and M. R. E. Proctor.

ISBN

0521454700 :

LCCN

gb 94024938

OCLC

ocm30361495

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Columbia University Libraries