These lecture notes are based on a tutorial given in 2017 at a plasma physics winter school
in Les Houches. Their aim is to provide a self-contained graduate-student level introduction …

This updated revision gives a complete and topical overview on Nonconservative Stability
which is essential for many areas of science and technology ranging from particles trapping …

Recent decades have seen enormous progress in the experimental investigation of
fundamental processes that are relevant to geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics …

In the current-driven, kink-type Tayler instability (TI) a sufficiently strong azimuthal magnetic
field becomes unstable against nonaxisymmetric perturbations. The TI has been discussed …

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is thought to play a key role in the formation of stars
and black holes by sustaining the turbulence in hydrodynamically stable Keplerian accretion …

We perform a local stability analysis of rotational flows in the presence of a constant vertical
magnetic field and an azimuthal magnetic field with a general radial dependence …

We have conducted experimental measurements and numerical simulations of a precession-
driven flow in a cylindrical cavity. The study is dedicated to the precession dynamo …

We present results on the synchronization of the helicity in a liquid-metal Rayleigh–Bénard
experiment under the influence of a tide-like electromagnetic forcing with azimuthal …

Magnetic fields of planets, stars and galaxies are generated by self-excitation in moving
electrically conducting fluids. Once produced, magnetic fields can play an active role in …

The first direct measurements of effective magnetic diffusivity in turbulent flow of
electroconductive fluids (the so-called β effect) under the magnetic Reynolds number R m≫ …