Inertial modes of a compressible fluid core model

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 101, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 489-505

  Seyed Mahmoud, Behnam ^a   Heikoop, John ^a   Seyed Mahmoud, Refah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compressibility; Earth's core; Inertial modes; Rotating fluids

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EARTH (PLANET); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ROTATIONAL FLOW;

EARTH'S FLUID CORE; INERTIAL MODE;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EARTH (PLANET); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ROTATIONAL FLOW;

COMPRESSIBILITY; CORE (PLANETARY); DISPLACEMENT; EARTH ROTATION; EIGENVALUE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPHERE;

EID: 37049022179     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091920701523337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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