A nonlinear vacillating dynamo induced by an electrically heterogeneous mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 4411-4414

  Chan, Kit H ^a   Zhang, Keke ^b   Zou, Jun ^a   Schubert, Gerald ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELDS; TURBULENCE;

MANTLES; SPHERICAL NUMERICAL DYNAMOS;

GEOPHYSICS;

CORE (PLANETARY); CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MANTLE; NONLINEARITY;

EID: 0035679783     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013453     Document Type: Article

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