Optimal dynamo action by steady flows confined to a cube

DOI10.1017/jfm.2015.545zbMath1382.86016OpenAlexW2260789453MaRDI QIDQ2796550

W. Herreman, Long Chen, Andrew D. Jackson

Publication date: 29 March 2016

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://doc.rero.ch/record/301077/files/S0022112015005455.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

variational methodsdynamo theorygeophysical and geological flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geo-electricity and geomagnetism (86A25)

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Cites Work

• A class of self-sustaining dissipative spherical dynamos
• Minimal seeds for shear flow turbulence: using nonlinear transient growth to touch the edge of chaos
• Revisiting the ABC flow dynamo

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