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The problem of the origin of planetary magnetism is formulated as a bifurcation problem and some recent theoretical work on the generation of magnetic fields by buoyancy-driven convection in rotating spherical shells is briefly reviewed. Since the lack of laboratory experiments has hampered the theoretical progress, a possible configuration for a laboratory apparatus is proposed.
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Busse, F.H. (1992). Dynamic Theory of Planetary Magnetism and Laboratory Experiments. In: Friedrich, R., Wunderlin, A. (eds) Evolution of Dynamical Structures in Complex Systems. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 69. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84781-3_9
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