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Scientific results based on computations carried out at the Stuttgart Supercomputing Center are presented. Coherent structures in turbulent convection are found and the form of magnetic fields generated by the dynamo action has been determined as a function of the parameters of the problem. The saturation of magnetic energy in dependence on the Rayleigh number is studied in a particular case.
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Grote, E., Busse, F.H., Simitev, R. (2002). Buoyancy Driven Convection in Rotating Spherical Shells and Its Dynamo Action. In: Krause, E., Jäger, W. (eds) High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’01. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56034-7_3
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