Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. (2015) 70: 31101
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2015150049

Numerical dynamo action in cylindrical containers^*

¹ Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur, CNRS UPR 3251, rue John von Neumann, 91403 Orsay Cedex, France
² Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University 3368 TAMU, College Station, 77843-3368 TX, USA
³ Luth, CNRS (UMR8102) and Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Place Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France

^a e-mail: caroline.nore@limsi.fr

Received: 28 January 2015
Revised: 14 April 2015
Accepted: 20 May 2015
Published online: 24 June 2015

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present results from numerical simulations of dynamo action in relation with two magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) experiments using liquid sodium in cylindrical containers. The first one is the von Kármán sodium (VKS) experiment from Cadarache (France), the second one is a precession-driven dynamo experiment from the DREsden sodium facility for DYNamo and thermohydraulic studies (DRESDYN).