ERC Advanced grant for Prof. Andy Jackson

With this ERC project, Andy Jackson aims to investigate dynamo mechanisms that generate magnetic fields in the cores of rocky planets and gas giants. To simulate these processes, the project draws on the mathematical theory of optimal control to be able to compute the dynamics of planetary cores in a regime in which viscosity plays no leading-order role. The aspiration is to develop a new breed of dynamos that represent more accurately the processes of field generation.