Magnetohydrodynamic activity inside a sphere

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Mininni, Pablo D ^a   Montgomery, David C ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DC GENERATORS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPHERES;

DIPOLE ORIENTATION; ORTHOGONAL EXPANSION FUNCTIONS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRY;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DC GENERATORS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPHERES;

EID: 33751564355     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2393438     Document Type: Article

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