Magnetic Instabilities Driven by Sheared Toroidal and Poloidal Flows in the limit of B=0. Final Report

Foster, Cary B.

University of Wisconsin, Department of Physics, Madison, WI, US (United States)

关键词: Magnetic Fields;    Sodium;    Stars;    71 Classical And Quantum Mechanics, General Physics;    Kinetic Energy;   

DOI  :  10.2172/766601
RP-ID  :  None
RP-ID  :  FG02-98ER54477
RP-ID  :  766601

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

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.