Mark Nornberg Associate Research Physicist Plasma Science and Technology Department Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory PO Box 451 Princeton, NJ 08648 (609)243-3165 [My public key] [My digital signature certificate]

Research Interests

• The Magnetorotational Instability
• Free-surface MHD
• Dynamos
• MHD Turbulence

Interesting Links

• Princeton Magnetorotational Instability Experiment
• Madison Dynamo Experiment
• MRI Project Page (local only)
• The PS&T Seminar
• My BibTeX Database

Feeds for articles and journals

Publications

• M. D. Nornberg, H. Ji, J. L. Peterson, and J. R. Rhoads, ``A liquid metal flume for free surface magnetohydrodynamic experiments,'' Rev. Sci. Instr. 79, 094501 (2008). PPPL Technical Report PPPL-4345.
• N. B. Morley, L. C. Cadwallader, and M. D. Nornberg, ``GaInSn usage in the research laboratory,'' Rev. Sci. Inst. 79, 056107 (2008).
• E. J. Spence, M. D. Nornberg, R. A. Bayliss, R. D. Kendrick, and C. B. Forest, ``Fluctuation-driven magnetic fields in the Madison Dynamo Experiment,'' Phys. Plasmas 15, 055910 (2008).
• E. J. Spence, M. D. Nornberg, C. M. Jacobson, C. A. Parada, R. D. Kendrick, N. Z. Taylor, and C. B. Forest, ``Turbulent diamagnetism in flowing liquid sodium,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 164503 (2007).
• M. D. Nornberg, " The Role of MHD Turbulence in Magnetic Self-Excitation: A Study of the Madison Dynamo Experiment," Ph.D. Thesis (2006).
• R. A. Bayliss, M. D. Nornberg, P. W. Terry, and C. B. Forest,``Numerical simulations of current generation and dynamo excitation in a mechanically-forced, turbulent flow,'' Phys. Rev. E 75, 026303 (2007).
• M. D. Nornberg, E. J. Spence, R. D. Kendrick, C. M. Jacobson, and C. B. Forest, ``Intermittent magnetic field excitation by a turbulent flow of liquid sodium,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 044503 (2006).
• M. D. Nornberg, E. J. Spence, R. A. Bayliss, R. D. Kendrick, C. M. Jacobson, and C. B. Forest, ``Measurements of the Magnetic Field Induced by a Turbulent Flow of Liquid Metal,'' Phys. Plasmas 13, 055901 (2006).
• E. J. Spence, C. B. Forest, R. D. Kendrick, C. M. Jacobson, and M. D. Nornberg, ``Observation of a Turbulence-Induced Large Scale Magnetic Field,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055002 (2006).
• C. B. Forest, R. A. Bayliss, R. D. Kendrick, M. D. Nornberg, R. O'Connell, and E. J. Spence, ``Hydrodynamic and numerical modeling of a spherical homogeneous dynamo experiment,'' Magnetohydrodynamics 38 (2002), no. 1/2, 107--120.
• R. O'Connell, R. Kendrick, M. Nornberg, E. Spence, A. Bayliss, and C. Forest, ``On the possibility of an homogeneous MHD dynamo in the laboratory,'' Dynamo and Dynamics, a Mathematical Challenge (Kluwer Academic Publishers), vol. 26 of NATO Science Series II, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 59--63.

Presentations

2008

• First MHD Results of the Princeton MRI Experiment, to be presented at the annual APS Division of Plasma Physics meeting (2008), Dallas, TX.
• Free-surface MHD channel flow experiments, to be presented at the annual APS Division of Plasma Physics meeting (2008), Dallas, TX.
• "Observation of MHD Instability in the Princeton MRI Experiment" presented at the CMSO General Meeting, Princeton New Jersey, July 8-10, 2008.
• "Preliminary MHD Results from the MRI Experiment" presented at the Astrophysics Workshop on Saturation and Transport Properties of MRI-driven Turbulence, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences June 16th - 18th, 2008
• Update of Free-surface Liquid Metal Flow Experiments, presented at the Plasma Facing Components E-meeting, February 13, 2008.

2007

• The Magnetic Ekman effect in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow, Earth and Planetary Magnetism Group, Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich, November 1, 2007.
• Initial results from the Princeton Magnetorotational Instability Experiment using liquid metal, presented at the annual APS Division of Plasma Physics meeting (2007), Orlando, Florida.
• A liquid metal Taylor-Couette experiment to study the Magnetorotational Instability, presented at the 15th International Couette-Taylor Workshop, Le Havre, France, July 11, 2007.
• Laboratory Study of MHD Effects on Stability and Turbulence in a Free-surface Liquid Metal, presented at the 2007 Plasma Facing Components meeting, Argonne National Lab, June 6, 2007.

2006

• Intermittent magnetic field excitation in the Madison Dynamo Experiment, APS DPP 2006 Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 30-November 3, 2006.
• The Role of Turbulence in the Madison Dynamo Experiment, CMSO General Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2-4, 2006.
• Intermittent magnetic field excitation by a turbulent flow of liquid sodium, Modeling Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Application to planetary and stellar dynamos, a Geophysical Turbulence Program Workshop, NCAR, Boulder, June 27-30, 2006.
• Induction Mechanisms in the Madison Dynamo Experiment, P-23 Technical Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, May 2006.
• Induction Mechanisms in the Madison Dynamo Experiment, Plasma Science and Technology Seminar, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, May 2006.
• MHD Turbulence in the Madison Dynamo Experiment, APS April 2006 Meeting, Dallas, TX, April 22-25, 2006.
• Geomagnetism and Laboratory Dynamos, Wisconsin Geological Society, April 2006, West Allis, Wisconsin.

2005

• Laboratory Dynamos: Exploring How Planets Generate Magnetic Fields, Lawrence University Physics Colloquium, October 2005, Appleton, Wisconsin.
• Velocity field tomography of the Madison Dynamo Experiment using external magnetic perturbations, Perm Dynamo Days Workshop, the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Perm, Russia, February, 7-11, 2005.
• MHD Turbulence in the Madison Dynamo Experiment, APS DPP 2005 Meeting, Denver, CO, October 24-28, 2005.

2004

• Magnetic Eigenmode Analysis of the Madison Dynamo Experiment, APS DPP 2004 Meeting, Savannah, GA, November 15-19, 2004

2003

• Magnetic Eigenmode Analysis of the Madison Dynamo Experiment, APS DPP 2003 Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, October 27-31, 2003

2000

• Hydrodynamic Experiments Simulating the Madison Dynamo Experiment. APS DPP 2000 Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, October 23-27, 2000.