The effects of different parameter regimes in geodynamo simulations

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-120

  Ogden, Darcy E ^a   Glatzmaier, Gary A ^a   Coe, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geodynamo simulations; Magnetic Prandtl number; Radiogenic heating

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HEATING; PRANDTL NUMBER; ROTATION; VISCOSITY;

GEODYNAMO SIMULATIONS; MAGNETIC PRANDTL NUMBER; RADIOGENIC HEATING;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HEATING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PRANDTL NUMBER; ROTATION; VISCOSITY;

CORIOLIS FORCE; GEODYNAMO; MAGNETIC FIELD; SIMULATION;

EID: 33745100219     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091920600723343     Document Type: Article

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