Michael R. E. Proctor

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of dynamo theory and its application to the solar and stellar dynamics of rotating systems, including the chaotic solar cycle and the non-linear dynamo and Model-Z.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present numerical computations of linear kinematic dynamos associated with periodic smooth flows, with diffusion explicitly included, for diffusion times up to 10,000 times greater than the turnover time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the convective instability of a layer of fluid heated from below is studied on the assumption that the flux of heat through the boundaries is unaffected by the motion in the layer, and when the heat flux is above the critical value for the onset of convection, motion takes place on a horizontal scale much greater than the layer depth.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed report on a program of direct numerical simulations of incompressible nonhelical randomly forced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence that are used to settle a long-standing issue in the turbulent dynamo theory and demonstrate that the fluctuation dynamo exists in the limit of large magnetic Reynolds number Rm 1 and small magnetic Prandtl number Pm 1.

TL;DR: In this paper, the finite amplitude behavior of global magnetic fields and the large-scale flows induced by them in rotating systems is investigated, where viscous and ohmic dissipative mechanisms both play a role in determining the amplitude and structure of the flows and magnetic fields.