Patrick Kolhey

Projects

Current:

• Numerical simulations of Mercury’s dynamo process
• Influence of boundary conditions on convection and the dynamo process in rotating fluid layers

Master thesis:
„The influence of an imposed heat flux on convection and magnetic field generation in a rotating fluid layer“ (University of Münster)

Bachelor thesis:
„Numerical investigation of Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a rotating cylinder“ (University of Münster)

Publications

• Kolhey, P., Stellmach, S., & Heyner, D. (2022). Influence of boundary conditions on rapidly rotating convection and its dynamo action in a plane fluid layer. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 7 , 043502. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.043502
• Toepfer, S., Oertel, I., Schiron, V., Narita, Y., Glassmeier, K.-H., Heyner, D., Kolhey, P., Motschmann, U. (2022). Reconstruction of mercury’s internal magnetic field beyond the octupole. Annales Geophysicae, 40 (1), 91–105. https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-91-2022
• Toepfer, S., Narita, Y., Glassmeier, K.-H., Heyner, D., Kolhey, P., Motschmann, U., Langlais B. (2021). The Mie representation for Mercury’s magnetic field. Earth Planets Space 73, 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-021-01386-4
• Heyner, D., Auster, H.-U., Fornaçon, K.-H., ..., Kolhey, P. et al. (2021). The BepiColombo Planetary Magnetometer MPO-MAG: What Can We Learn from the Hermean Magnetic Field?. Space Sci Rev 217, 52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-021-00822-x
• Genova, A., Hussmann, H., Van Hoolst, T., ...,Kolhey, P. et al. (2021). Geodesy, Geophysics and Fundamental Physics Investigations of the BepiColombo Mission. Space Sci Rev 217, 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-021-00808-9
• Toepfer, S., Narita, Y., Heyner, D., Kolhey, P., and Motschmann, U. (2020). Mathematical foundation of Capon's method for planetary magnetic field analysis, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 9, 471–481, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-471-2020