The Karlsruhe two-scale dynamo experiment

ISSN
1631-0705
Date Issued
2008
Author(s)
Mueller, Ulrich
Stieglitz, Robert
Busse, Fritz H.
DOI
10.1016/j.crhy.2008.07.005
Abstract
This article outlines the experimental realization of the Roberts-Busse kinematic dynamo model at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. Essential observations of the spatial and temporal structures of the self-induced magnetic field and features of its saturation mechanism are presented and the experimental findings are compared with predictions from model calculations.