@unpublished{ScheelSeehafer1997,
  author    = {Scheel, Stefan and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Bifurcation to oscillations in three-dimensional Rayleigh-B{\´e}nard convection},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14370},
  year      = {1997},
  abstract  = {Three-dimensional bouyancy-driven convection in a horizontal fluid layer with stress-free boundary conditions at the top and bottom and periodic boundary conditions in the horizontal directions is investigated by means of numerical simulation and bifurcation-analysis techniques. The aspect ratio is fixed to a value of 2√2 and the Prandtl number to a value of 6.8. Two-dimensional convection rolls are found to be stable up to a Rayleigh number of 17 950, where a Hopf bifurcation leads to traveling waves. These are stable up to a Rayleigh number of 30 000, where a secondary Hopf bifurcation generates modulated traveling waves. We pay particular attention to the symmetries of the solutions and symmetry breaking by the bifurcations.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{RuedigerFeudelSeehafer1998,
  author    = {R{\"u}diger, Sten and Feudel, Fred and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Dynamo bifurcations in an array of driven convection-like rolls},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14678},
  year      = {1998},
  abstract  = {The bifurcations in a three-dimensional incompressible, electrically conducting fluid with an external forcing of the Roberts type have been studied numerically. The corresponding flow can serve as a model for the convection in the outer core of the Earth and is realized in an ongoing laboratory experiment aimed at demonstrating a dynamo effect. The symmetry group of the problem has been determined and special attention has been paid to symmetry breaking by the bifurcations. The nonmagnetic, steady Roberts flow loses stability to a steady magnetic state, which in turn is subject to secondary bifurcations. The secondary solution branches have been traced until they end up in chaotic states.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{SchmidtmannFeudelSeehafer1997,
  author    = {Schmidtmann, Olaf and Feudel, Fred and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Nonlinear Galerkin methods for the 3D magnetohydrodynamic equations},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14431},
  year      = {1997},
  abstract  = {The usage of nonlinear Galerkin methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations is demonstrated by treating an example. We desribe the implementation of a nonlinear Galerkin method based on an approximate inertial manifold for the 3D magnetohydrodynamic equations and compare its efficiency with the linear Galerkin approximation. Special bifurcation points, time-averaged values of energy and enstrophy as well as Kaplan-Yorke dimensions are calculated for both schemes in order to estimate the number of modes necessary to correctly describe the behavior of the exact solutions.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{SeehaferSchumacher1997,
  author    = {Seehafer, Norbert and Schumacher, J{\"o}rg},
  title     = {Squire's theorem for the magnetohydrodynamic sheet pinch},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14628},
  year      = {1997},
  abstract  = {The stability of the quiescent ground state of an incompressible viscous fluid sheet bounded by two parallel planes, with an electrical conductivity varying across the sheet, and driven by an external electric field tangential to the boundaries is considered. It is demonstrated that irrespective of the conductivity profile, as magnetic and kinetic Reynolds numbers (based on the Alfv{\´e}n velocity) are raised from small values, two-dimensional perturbations become unstable first.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KliemSeehafer2022,
  author    = {Kliem, Bernhard and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Helicity shedding by flux rope ejection},
  series = {Astronomy and astrophysics : an international weekly journal},
  volume    = {659},
  journal   = {Astronomy and astrophysics : an international weekly journal},
  publisher = {EDP Sciences},
  address   = {Les Ulis},
  issn      = {0004-6361},
  doi       = {10.1051/0004-6361/202142422},
  pages     = {9},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {We quantitatively address the conjecture that magnetic helicity must be shed from the Sun by eruptions launching coronal mass ejections in order to limit its accumulation in each hemisphere. By varying the ratio of guide and strapping field and the flux rope twist in a parametric simulation study of flux rope ejection from approximately marginally stable force-free equilibria, different ratios of self- and mutual helicity are set and the onset of the torus or helical kink instability is obtained. The helicity shed is found to vary over a broad range from a minor to a major part of the initial helicity, with self helicity being largely or completely shed and mutual helicity, which makes up the larger part of the initial helicity, being shed only partly. Torus-unstable configurations with subcritical twist and without a guide field shed up to about two-thirds of the initial helicity, while a highly twisted, kink-unstable configuration sheds only about one-quarter. The parametric study also yields stable force-free flux rope equilibria up to a total flux-normalized helicity of 0.25, with a ratio of self- to total helicity of 0.32 and a ratio of flux rope to external poloidal flux of 0.94. These results numerically demonstrate the conjecture of helicity shedding by coronal mass ejections and provide a first account of its parametric dependence. Both self- and mutual helicity are shed significantly; this reduces the total initial helicity by a fraction of ∼0.4--0.65 for typical source region parameters.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{FeudelSeehaferSchmidtmann1995,
  author    = {Feudel, Fred and Seehafer, Norbert and Schmidtmann, Olaf},
  title     = {Bifurcation phenomena of the magnetofluid equations},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13585},
  year      = {1995},
  abstract  = {We report on bifurcation studies for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in three space dimensions with periodic boundary conditions and a temporally constant external forcing. Fourier reprsentations of velocity, pressure and magnetic field have been used to transform the original partial differential equations into systems of ordinary differential equations (ODE), to which then special numerical methods for the qualitative analysis of systems of ODE have been applied, supplemented by the simulative calculation of solutions for selected initial conditions. In a part of the calculations, in order to reduce the number of modes to be retained, the concept of approximate inertial manifolds has been applied. For varying (incereasing from zero) strength of the imposed forcing, or varying Reynolds number, respectively, time-asymptotic states, notably stable stationary solutions, have been traced. A primary non-magnetic steady state loses, in a Hopf bifurcation, stability to a periodic state with a non-vanishing magnetic field, showing the appearance of a generic dynamo effect. From now on the magnetic field is present for all values of the forcing. The Hopf bifurcation is followed by furhter, symmetry-breaking, bifurcations, leading finally to chaos. We pay particular attention to kinetic and magnetic helicities. The dynamo effect is observed only if the forcing is chosen such that a mean kinetic helicity is generated; otherwise the magnetic field diffuses away, and the time-asymptotic states are non-magnetic, in accordance with traditional kinematic dynamo theory.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{FeudelSeehafer1995,
  author    = {Feudel, Fred and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Bifurcations and pattern formation in a 2D Navier-Stokes fluid},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13907},
  year      = {1995},
  abstract  = {We report on bifurcation studies for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in two space dimensions with periodic boundary conditions and an external forcing of the Kolmogorov type. Fourier representations of velocity and pressure have been used to approximate the original partial differential equations by a finite-dimensional system of ordinary differential equations, which then has been studied by means of bifurcation-analysis techniques. A special route into chaos observed for increasing Reynolds number or strength of the imposed forcing is described. It includes several steady states, traveling waves, modulated traveling waves, periodic and torus solutions, as well as a period-doubling cascade for a torus solution. Lyapunov exponents and Kaplan-Yorke dimensions have been calculated to characterize the chaotic branch. While studying the dynamics of the system in Fourier space, we also have transformed solutions to real space and examined the relation between the different bifurcations in Fourier space and toplogical changes of the streamline portrait. In particular, the time-dependent solutions, such as, e.g., traveling waves, torus, and chaotic solutions, have been characterized by the associated fluid-particle motion (Lagrangian dynamics).},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{FeudelSeehafer1994,
  author    = {Feudel, Fred and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {On the bifurcation phenomena in truncations of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13390},
  year      = {1994},
  abstract  = {We have studied bifurcation phenomena for the incompressable Navier-Stokes equations in two space dimensions with periodic boundary conditions. Fourier representations of velocity and pressure have been used to transform the original partial differential equations into systems of ordinary differential equations (ODE), to which then numerical methods for the qualitative analysis of systems of ODE have been applied, supplemented by the simulative calculation of solutions for selected initial conditions. Invariant sets, notably steady states, have been traced for varying Reynolds number or strength of the imposed forcing, respectively. A complete bifurcation sequence leading to chaos is described in detail, including the calculation of the Lyapunov exponents that characterize the resulting chaotic branch in the bifurcation diagram.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{FeudelSeehaferSchmidtmann1995,
  author    = {Feudel, Fred and Seehafer, Norbert and Schmidtmann, Olaf},
  title     = {Fluid helicity and dynamo bifurcations},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13882},
  year      = {1995},
  abstract  = {The bifurcation behaviour of the 3D magnetohydrodynamic equations has been studied for external forcings of varying degree of helicity. With increasing strength of the forcing a primary non-magnetic steady state loses stability to a magnetic periodic state if the helicity exceeds a threshold value and to different non-magnetic states otherwise.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Seehafer1995,
  author    = {Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Nature of the α effect in magnetohydrodynamics},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13919},
  year      = {1995},
  abstract  = {It is shown that the ff effect of mean-field magnetohydrodynamics, which consists in the generation of a mean electromotive force along the mean magnetic field by turbulently fluctuating parts of velocity and magnetic field, is equivalent to the simultaneous generation of both turbulent and mean-field magnetic helicities, the generation rates being equal in magnitude and opposite in sign. In the particular case of statistically stationary and homogeneous fluctuations this implies that the ff effect can increase the energy in the mean magnetic field only under the condition that also magnetic helicity is accumulated there.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{DemircanScheelSeehafer1999,
  author    = {Demircan, Ayhan and Scheel, Stefan and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Heteroclinic behavior in rotating Rayleigh-B{\´e}nard convection},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14914},
  year      = {1999},
  abstract  = {We investigate numerically the appearance of heteroclinic behavior in a three-dimensional, buoyancy-driven fluid layer with stress-free top and bottom boundaries, a square horizontal periodicity with a small aspect ratio, and rotation at low to moderate rates about a vertical axis. The Prandtl number is 6.8. If the rotation is not too slow, the skewed-varicose instability leads from stationary rolls to a stationary mixed-mode solution, which in turn loses stability to a heteroclinic cycle formed by unstable roll states and connections between them. The unstable eigenvectors of these roll states are also of the skewed-varicose or mixed-mode type and in some parameter regions skewed-varicose like shearing oscillations as well as square patterns are involved in the cycle. Always present weak noise leads to irregular horizontal translations of the convection pattern and makes the dynamics chaotic, which is verified by calculating Lyapunov exponents. In the nonrotating case, the primary rolls lose, depending on the aspect ratio, stability to traveling waves or a stationary square pattern. We also study the symmetries of the solutions at the intermittent fixed points in the heteroclinic cycle.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{SchumacherSeehafer1999,
  author    = {Schumacher, J{\"o}rg and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Bifurcation analysis of the plane sheet pinch},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14926},
  year      = {1999},
  abstract  = {A numerical bifurcation analysis of the electrically driven plane sheet pinch is presented. The electrical conductivity varies across the sheet such as to allow instability of the quiescent basic state at some critical Hartmann number. The most unstable perturbation is the two-dimensional tearing mode. Restricting the whole problem to two spatial dimensions, this mode is followed up to a time-asymptotic steady state, which proves to be sensitive to three-dimensional perturbations even close to the point where the primary instability sets in. A comprehensive three-dimensional stability analysis of the two-dimensional steady tearing-mode state is performed by varying parameters of the sheet pinch. The instability with respect to three-dimensional perturbations is suppressed by a sufficiently strong magnetic field in the invariant direction of the equilibrium. For a special choice of the system parameters, the unstably perturbed state is followed up in its nonlinear evolution and is found to approach a three-dimensional steady state.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{DemircanSeehafer2000,
  author    = {Demircan, Ayhan and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Nonlinear square patterns in Rayleigh-B{\´e}nard convection},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14986},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {We numerically investigate nonlinear asymmetric square patterns in a horizontal convection layer with up-down reflection symmetry. As a novel feature we find the patterns to appear via the skewed varicose instability of rolls. The time-independent nonlinear state is generated by two unstable checkerboard (symmetric square) patterns and their nonlinear interaction. As the bouyancy forces increase, the interacting modes give rise to bifurcations leading to a periodic alternation between a nonequilateral hexagonal pattern and the square pattern or to different kinds of standing oscillations.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SeehaferSchumacher2000,
  author    = {Seehafer, Norbert and Schumacher, J{\"o}rg},
  title     = {Patterns in an electrically driven conducting fluid layer},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {The equilibrium states of electrically conducting fluids or plasmas have been a subject of intense study for a long time, motivated in particular by the interest in controlled thermonuclear fusion, as well as that in space and astrophysical phenomena such as plasma loops in the solar corona. If high temperatures prohibit solid walls, a conducting fluid can be held together by the action of an electric current passing through it with the pressure gradients being balanced by the Lorentz force. The resultant configuration is known as a pinch. In this paper we report on studies of the pinch in the geometry of a plane sheet.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SeehaferSchumacher2000,
  author    = {Seehafer, Norbert and Schumacher, J{\"o}rg},
  title     = {Bifurcation analysis of an electrically driven fluid layer},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {The equilibrium states of electrically conducting fluids or plasmas have been a subject of intense study for a long time, motivated in particular by the interest in controlled thermonuclear fusion, as well as that in space and astrophysical phenomena such as plasma loops in the solar corona. If high temperatures prohibit solid walls, a conducting fluid can be held together by the action of an electric current passing through it with the pressure gradients being balanced by the Lorentz force. The resultant configuration is known as a pinch. In this paper we report on studies of the pinch in the geometry of a plane sheet.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{DemircanSeehafer2000,
  author    = {Demircan, Ayhan and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Heteroclinic behavior in rotating Rayleigh-B{\´e}nard convection},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {We investigate numerically the appearance of heteroclinic behavior in a three-dimensional, buoyancy-driven, rotating fluid layer. Periodic boundary conditions in the horizontal directions and stress-free boundary conditions at the top and bottom are assumed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KurthsSeehaferSpahn1999,
  author    = {Kurths, J{\"u}rgen and Seehafer, Norbert and Spahn, Frank},
  title     = {Nichtlineare Dynamik in der Physik : Forschungsbeispiele und Forschungstrends},
  isbn      = {3-540-65329- 5},
  year      = {1999},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{BrownCanfieldFieldetal.1999,
  author    = {Brown, M. R. and Canfield, R. C. and Field, G. and Kulsrud, R. and Pevtsov, A. A. and Rosner, R. and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Magnetic helicity in space and laboratory plasmas: Editorial summary},
  year      = {1999},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{DemircanSeehafer1999,
  author    = {Demircan, Ayhan and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Bifurcation to oscillations and chaos in rotating convection},
  year      = {1999},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchumacherKliemSeehafer2000,
  author    = {Schumacher, J{\"o}rg and Kliem, Bernhard and Seehafer, Norbert},
  title     = {Three-dimensional spontaneous magnetic reconnection in neutral current sheets},
  year      = {2000},
  language  = {en}
}