ABSTRACT

ABBREVIATIONS Notation Meaning Context ABC-flow Arnold-Beltrami-Childress Fast dynamos (e.g. p.46) BRA Boussinesq-Reynolds Ansatz Turbulence (e.g. p.236) CMB Core-Mantle Boundary Geophysics CZ Convective Zone Solar physics DNS Direct Numerical Simulation Turbulence DTS Derviche Tourneur Sodium Experiments (e.g. p.378) EDQN Eddy-Damped Quasi-Normal Markovian Turbulence (e.g. p.90) EMF ElectroMotive Force General (e.g. p.34) GP-flow Galloway-Proctor Fast dynamos (e.g. p.31) GS Grid Scale Turbulence (e.g. p.230) GSV Geomagnetic Secular Variation Geophysics ICB Inner-Core Boundary Geophysics LES Large Eddy Simulation Turbulence MAC Magnetic-Archimedean-Coriolis Geophysics MFE Mean Field Electrodynamics Dynamo MHD MagnetoHydroDynamic General (e.g. p.6) MRI Magneto-Rotational Instability MHD (e.g. p.310) ODE Ordinary Differential Equation General PDE Partial Differential Equation General ICB Inner Core Boundary Geophysics ISM InterStellar medium Astrophysics SGS Sub-Grid Scales Turbulence (e.g. p.230) SN Supernova star Astrophysics STF Stretch-Twist-Fold Fast dynamos (e.g. p.47) UPOs Unstable Periodic Orbits Dynamical systems (e.g. p.117) VKS Von Ka´rma´n Sodium Experiments (e.g. p.377) WKBJ Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin-Jeffreys Asymptotics (e.g. p.157)