Dynamo action in complex flows: The quick and the fast

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 601, Issue , 2008, Pages 101-122

  Tobias, Steven M ^a   Cattaneo, Fausto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

MAGNETIC REYNOLDS NUMBER; SCALAR EQUATIONS; SPECTRAL FILTERING;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW STRUCTURE; GEODYNAMO; KINEMATICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 42349116092     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200800044X     Document Type: Article

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