A fully implicit model for simulating dynamo action in a Cartesian domain

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 339-349

  Schmalzl, Jörg ^a   Hansen, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cartesian domain; Dynamo action; Implicit explicit method

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0033915107     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(00)00157-6     Document Type: Article

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