Personal profile
Vision Statement
My research focuses on understanding the fundamental fluid processes that occur in turbulent rotating convection and magnetoconvection, which occur ubiquitously throughout nature. Using numerical and theoretical methods, my goal is to explain the underlying physical mechanisms involved in such processes as the generation of planetary magnetic fields as well as the origin of large-scale flows on planets and stars.
Research Interests
- astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics
- Rayleigh-Bénard convection
- turbulence
- rotating flows
- coherent structures
- boundary layers
- non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects
- reduced-order modelling and mode decompositions
- numerical methods
Education/Academic qualification
Physics, Doctorate, Rotation and non-Oberbeck–Boussinesq effects in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection, University of Göttingen
Physics, MSc, Collimated Outflows from Young Stellar Objects, University of Heidelberg
Keywords
- QC Physics
- Convection
- Rotating Flows
- Turbulence
- Fluid Dynamics
- Numerical Methods
- Mathematical Physics
- Applied Mathematics
- Planetary Science
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Dynamo Theory
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Seven decades of exploring planetary interiors with rotating convection experiments
Potherat, A. & Horn, S., 25 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Comptes Rendus Physique. 25, S3, p. 21-75 55 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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The Elbert Range of Magnetostrophic Convection. II. Comparing Linear Theory to Nonlinear Low-Rm Simulations
Horn, S. & Aurnou, J. M., 21 Mar 2025, In: Royal Society of London. Proceedings A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 481, 2310, 29 p., 20240016.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Transition from wall modes to multimodality in liquid gallium magnetoconvection
Xu, Y., Horn, S. & Aurnou, J. M., 27 Oct 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Physical Review Fluids. 8, 10, 21 p., 103503.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Experimental pub crawl from Rayleigh–Bénard to magnetostrophic convection
Grannan, A. M., Cheng, J. S., Aggarwal, A., Hawkins, E. K., Xu, Y., Horn, S., Sánchez-Álvarez, J. & Aurnou, J. M., 25 May 2022, In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 939, 13 p., R1.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Jump rope vortex flow in liquid metal Rayleigh–Bénard convection in a cuboid container of aspect ratio Γ=5
Akashi, M., Yanagisawa, T., Sakuraba, A., Schindler, F., Horn, S., Vogt, T. & Eckert, S., 10 Feb 2022, In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 932, 29 p., A27.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
- 4 Participation in conference
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Rotating Convection: From the Lab to the Stars
Horn, S. (Keynote Speaker)
28 May 2018 → 1 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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International Conference on Rayleigh–Bénard Turbulence
Horn, S. (Keynote Speaker)
14 May 2018 → 18 May 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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International Conference on Rayleigh–Bénard Turbulence
Horn, S. (Organising Committee)
1 Jun 2015 → 5 Jun 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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5th European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference
Horn, S. (Organising Committee)
9 Aug 2011 → 12 Aug 2011Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Prizes
Press/Media
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Since we spend so much of our lives around...
3/06/19
1 item of Media coverage
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Evaporative Convection in Glorious Time-Lapse
25/05/19
1 Media contribution
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