Effects of conductivity jumps in the envelope of a kinematic dynamo flow

Comptes Rendus - Mecanique

Volumn 334, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 593-598

  Laguerre, Raphael ^a,d   Nore, Caroline ^a,b   Léorat, Jacques ^c   Guermond, Jean Luc ^a,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid mechanics; Instability; Kinematic dynamo

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CONDUCTIVITY; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SODIUM;

EID: 33749236241     PISSN: 16310721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crme.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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