Dr. Jan Simkanin

Profile

Academic position	Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fields	Geophysics,Astrophysics
Keywords	Helical flows, Inverse dynamo problem, Invisible dynamo, hydromagnetic dynamos, Cylindrical and spherical models

Current contact address

Country	Slovakia
City	Bratislava
Institution	Earth Science Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute	Geophysical division/Department of Geomagnetism

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Andreas Tilgner	Institut für Geophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Dr. Frank Stefani	Institut für Fluiddynamik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden
Start of initial sponsorship	01/02/2003

Programme(s)

2002	Roman Herzog Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2025	Giesecke 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
2023	Vivaswat 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
2022	F. 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
2021	Federico Pizzi, André Giesecke Ján Šimkanin, Frank Stefani: Prograde and retrograde precession of a fluid-filled cylinder. In: New J. Phys., 2021, 123016
2008	Jan Simkanin, Andreas Tilgner: Inverse dynamo problem in a cylinder. In: Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynam., 2008, 205-215
2006	Jan 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
2006	Jan 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
2006	Pavel 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
2005	Jan Simkanin, Andreas Tilgner: Searching invisible helical dynamos in a cylinder. In: Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 2005, 101-107
2003	Jan Simkanin, Jozef Brestensky, Sebastian Sevcik: Problem of the rotating magnetoconvection in variously stratified fluid layer revisited. In: Studia geoph. et geod., 2003, 827-845