Articles Related to the Dynamo:

We expect to demonstrate with a laboratory experiment the primary mechanism by which magnetic fields are generated in the universe.

• What is a Dynamo?

• Astrophysical Background

• The α ω Dynamo

• Animated Simulation of the Accretion Disk α ω Dynamo *

• The Pulsed Jet Rotation Experiment *

• Numerical Simulations(not up)

• Physics of the Experiment(not up)

• Design of the Experiment (pdf)

• Safety for the Experiment *

• Operation of the Experiment *

• Ph.D. Dissertion :  Howard F. Beckley,  December 2002 *
  
  

  Measurements of Annular Couette Flow Stability at the
  Fluid Reynolds Number Re = 4.4 x 10^6: The Fluid Dynamic
  Precursor to a Liquid Sodium α ω Dynamo

• Dynamo and Hydromagnetic Liquid Metal Experiments (pdf) *
• A Magnetic α ω Dynamo in Active Galactic Nuclei Disks: I. The Hydrodynamics of Star-Disk Collisions and Keplerian Flow (pdf)
• A Magnetic α ω Dynamo in Active Galactic Nuclei Disks: II. Magnetic Field Generation, Theories and Simulations (pdf)
• High Magnetic Shear Gain in a Liquid Sodium Stable Couette Flow Experiment; A Prelude to an α-ω Dynamo Dynamo

• Data Acquisition in a High-Speed Rotating Frame for New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Liquid Sodium αω dynamo experiment

• The New Mexico dynamo: the past, the present, and the future

• Suppression of turbulent resistivity in turbulent Couette flow

* This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 99-00661. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.