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Frank Stefani is a researcher affiliated with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany. Their work primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Biomedical Engineering as subfields.

Their research topics cover various scientific areas including:

  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles
  • Non-Destructive Testing Techniques
  • Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics

Frank Stefani has published in a range of journals and conferences, frequently contributing to venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Sensors

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Evolution of a strong electrovortex flow in a cylindrical cell," 2020, Physical Review Fluids
  • "Solar and Anthropogenic Influences on Climate: Regression Analysis and Tentative Predictions," 2021, Climate
  • "Rieger, Schwabe, Suess-de Vries: The Sunny Beats of Resonance," 2024, Solar Physics

Frank Stefani collaborates frequently with several other researchers, including:

  • André Giesecke
  • Sven Eckert
  • Thomas Wondrak
  • Ferran Garcia
  • Thomas Gundrum

Best Publications

  • Detection of a flow induced magnetic field eigenmode in the riga dynamo facility

    Agris Gailitis;Olgerts Lielausis;Sergej Dement'ev;Ernests Platacis

  • Magnetic Field Saturation in the Riga Dynamo Experiment

    Agris Gailitis;Olgerts Lielausis;Ernests Platacis;Sergej Dement'ev

  • Experimental evidence for magnetorotational instability in a Taylor-Couette flow under the influence of a helical magnetic field.

    Frank Stefani;Thomas Gundrum;Gunter Gerbeth;Günther Rüdiger

  • Handbook on Lead-bismuth Eutectic Alloy and Lead Properties, Materials Compatibility, Thermal-hydraulics and Technologies - 2015 Edition

    Concetta Fazio;V.P. Sobolev;A. Aerts;S. Gavrilov

  • Contactless inductive flow tomography.

    Frank Stefani;Thomas Gundrum;Gunter Gerbeth

  • Colloquium: Laboratory experiments on hydromagnetic dynamos

    Agris Gailitis;Olgerts Lielausis;Ernests Platacis;Gunter Gerbeth

  • Experimental modeling of the continuous casting process of steel using low melting point metal alloys - the LIMMCAST program

    Klaus Timmel;Sven Eckert;Gunter Gerbeth;Frank Stefani

  • Experimental evidence for a transient Tayler instability in a cylindrical liquid-metal column.

    Martin Seilmayer;Frank Stefani;Thomas Gundrum;Tom Weier

  • Helical magnetorotational instability in a Taylor-Couette flow with strongly reduced Ekman pumping

    Frank Stefani;Gunter Gerbeth;Thomas Gundrum;Rainer Hollerbach

  • Experimental evidence for nonaxisymmetric magnetorotational instability in a rotating liquid metal exposed to an azimuthal magnetic field.

    Martin Seilmayer;Vladimir Galindo;Gunter Gerbeth;Thomas Gundrum

  • Experiments on the magnetorotational instability in helical magnetic fields

    Frank Stefani;Thomas Gundrum;Gunter Gerbeth;Günther Rüdiger

  • Current-driven flow instabilities in large-scale liquid metal batteries, and how to tame them

    Norbert Weber;Vladimir Galindo;Frank Stefani;Tom Weier

  • Asymmetric polarity reversals, bimodal field distribution, and coherence resonance in a spherically symmetric mean-field dynamo model.

    Frank Stefani;Gunter Gerbeth

  • How to circumvent the size limitation of liquid metal batteries due to the Tayler instability

    Frank Stefani;Tom Weier;Thomas Gundrum;Gunter Gerbeth

  • On the uniqueness of velocity reconstruction in conducting fluids from measurements of induced electromagnetic fields

    F Stefani;G Gerbeth

  • Sloshing instability and electrolyte layer rupture in liquid metal batteries

    Norbert Weber;Pascal Beckstein;Wietze Herreman;Gerrit Maik Horstmann

  • Ambivalent effects of added layers on steady kinematic dynamos in cylindrical geometry: application to the VKS experiment

    F. Stefani;M. Xu;G. Gerbeth;F. Ravelet

  • Combined Electromagnetic Tomography for Determining Two-phase Flow Characteristics in the Submerged Entry Nozzle and in the Mold of a Continuous Casting Model

    Thomas Wondrak;Sven Eckert;Gunter Gerbeth;Konrad Klotsche

  • The Riga Dynamo Experiment

    Agris Gailitis;Olgerts Lielausis;Ernests Platacis;Gunter Gerbeth

  • Contactless inductive flow tomography for a model of continuous steel casting

    Thomas Wondrak;Vladimir Galindo;Gunter Gerbeth;Thomas Gundrum

  • A contactless method for velocity reconstruction in electrically conducting fluids

    F Stefani;G Gerbeth

Frequent Co-Authors

Gunter Gerbeth
Gunter Gerbeth Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Sven Eckert
Sven Eckert Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Rainer Hollerbach
Rainer Hollerbach University of Leeds
Anthony J. Peyton
Anthony J. Peyton University of Manchester
Jean-Luc Guermond
Jean-Luc Guermond Texas A&M University
Wuliang Yin
Wuliang Yin University of Manchester
Sasa Kenjeres
Sasa Kenjeres Delft University of Technology
A. Tilgner
A. Tilgner University of Göttingen
Robert Rosner
Robert Rosner University of Chicago
Andreas Bund
Andreas Bund Ilmenau University of Technology

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