Some characteristics of magnetic field behavior in a model of MHD dynamo thermally driven in a rotating spherical shell

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 141-159

  Katayama, J S ^a   Matsushima, M ^a   Honkura, Y ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamo; Magnetic field; Velocity field

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033601889     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(98)00152-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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