How to simulate turbulent dynamos with the Pencil Code

Teaching material for a tutorial at the PCUM 2024.

Lecture Notes

Driven MHD turbulence

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General (magneto-)hydrodynamics:

Rai Choudhuri, “The physics of fluids and plasmas. An introduction for astro-physicists”, Cambridge University Press, 1998 [Link]

Biskamp, “Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence”, Cambridge University Press, 2003 [Link]

Davidson, “Turbulence : an introduction for scientists and engineers” Oxford University Press, 2004 [Link]

Rogachevskii, “Introduction to Turbulent Transport of Particles, Temperature and Magnetic Fields”, Cambridge University Press, 2021 [Link]

Schekochihin, “MHD turbulence: A biased review”, Journal of Plasma Physics, [Link]

Astrophysical magnetic fields:

Shukurov & Subramanian, “Astrophysical Magnetic Fields From Galaxies to the Early Universe”, Cambridge University Press, 2021 [Link]

Brandenburg & Subramanian, “Astrophysical magnetic fields and nonlinear dynamo theory”, Physics Reports, 2005 [Link]