Speaker
Dr
Frank Stefani
Description
At the end of 1999, the Riga and Karlsruhe experiments
sounded the bell for a period of significant experimental
effort to simulate the origin and the action of cosmic
magnetic fields. With the main focus on our own activities,
we summarize the recent liquid metal experiments on the
dynamo effect and related magnetic instabilities, and we
delineate our plans for a large scale sodium facility that
will comprise a precession experiment and a Taylor-Couette
experiment for the combined investigation of the
magnetorotational and the Tayler instability.
