Thermal core-mantle interaction: Exploring regimes for 'locked' dynamo action

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 165, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 83-92

  Willis, Ashley P ^a   Sreenivasan, Binod ^b   Gubbins, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geodynamo; Thermal core mantle interaction

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PRANDTL NUMBER; TECTONICS;

BOUSSINESQ FLUID; EKMAN NUMBER; GEODYNAMO; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CORE-MANTLE INTERACTION;

GEOPHYSICS;

AZIMUTH; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GEODYNAMO; HEAT FLUX; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; S-WAVE; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 35548936399     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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