Liquid sodium model of geophysical core convection

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 136-149

  Shew, Woodrow L ^a   Lathrop, Daniel P ^b  

^a Laboratoire de Physique UMR CNRS ENSL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamo; Earth's core; Rotating convection; Sodium; Turbulent convection

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GEOMAGNETISM; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CORE CONVECTION; LIQUID SODIUM; ROTATING CONVECTION; TURBULENT CONVECTION;

GEOPHYSICS;

CONVECTION; EARTH ROTATION; OUTER CORE;

EID: 28444437701     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2005.03.013     Document Type: Article

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