Buoyancy-driven perturbations in a rapidly rotating, electrically conducting fluid: Part I - Flow and magnetic field

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 429-469

  Loper, David E ^a   Chulliat, Arnaud ^a   Shimizu, Hisayoshi ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Hydromagnetic; Magnetoconvection; Rotating; Taylor column

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; VISUALIZATION;

BUOYANCY-DRIVEN PERTURBATIONS; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING FLUIDS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EARTH ROTATION; GEODYNAMO; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; ROTATING FLUID;

EID: 1342288123     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0309192032000141492     Document Type: Article

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