Dr. Jan Simkanin

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGeophysics,Astrophysics
KeywordsHelical flows, Inverse dynamo problem, Invisible dynamo, hydromagnetic dynamos, Cylindrical and spherical models

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityDresden
InstitutionHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
InstituteInstitut für Fluiddynamik

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Andreas TilgnerInstitut für Geophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Dr. Frank StefaniInstitut für Fluiddynamik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2003

Programme(s)

2002Roman Herzog Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2025Giesecke A., Wilbert M., Šimkanin J., Grauer R., Stefani F.: The role of magnetic boundaries in kinematic and self-consistent magnetohydrodynamic simulations of precession-driven dynamo action in a closed cylinder. In: Physics of Fluids, 2025, 086607
2023Vivaswat Kumar, Federico Pizzi, André Giesecke, Jan Simkanin, Thomas Gundrum, Matthias Ratajczak, Frank Stefani: The effect of nutation angle on the flow inside a precessing cylinder and its dynamo action. In: Physics of Fluids, 2023, 014114
2022F. Pizzi, A. Giesecke, J. Simkanin, V. Kumar, T. Gundrum, F. Stefani: Numerical and theoretical framework for the DRESDYN precession dynamo experiment. In: MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS, 58, 2022, 339–347
2021Federico Pizzi, André Giesecke Ján Šimkanin, Frank Stefani: Prograde and retrograde precession of a fluid-filled cylinder. In: New J. Phys., 2021, 123016
2008Jan Simkanin, Andreas Tilgner: Inverse dynamo problem in a cylinder. In: Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynam., 2008, 205-215
2006Jan Simkanin, Jozef Brestensky, Sebastian Sevcik: On hydromagnetic instabilities and the mean electromotive force in a non-uniformly stratified Earth's core affected by viscosity. In: Stud. Geophys. Geod., 2006, 645-661
2006Jan Simkanin, Andreas Tilgner: On invisible kinematic dynamo problem in cylinder. In: In V.N. Troyan, V.S. Semenov, M.V. Kubyshkina, eds., Proceedings of the 6th International conference 'Problems of Geocosmos', Saint-Petersburg State University, 2006, 344-347
2006Pavel Hejda, Maxim Reshetnyak, Jan Simkanin, Bernhard Steffen: The control volume method in the geodynamo simulations. In: V.N. Troyan, V.S. Semenov, M.V. Kubyshkina, eds., Proceedings of the 6th International conference 'Problems of Geocosmos', 2006, 313-316
2005Jan Simkanin, Andreas Tilgner: Searching invisible helical dynamos in a cylinder. In: Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 2005, 101-107
2003Jan Simkanin, Jozef Brestensky, Sebastian Sevcik: Problem of the rotating magnetoconvection in variously stratified fluid layer revisited. In: Studia geoph. et geod., 2003, 827-845