An experimental and numerical study of librationally driven flow in planetary cores and subsurface oceans

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 173, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 141-152

  Noir, J ^a   Hemmerlin, F ^a   Wicht, J ^b   Baca, S M ^c   Aurnou, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Callisto; Centrifugal instability; Core; Core mantle coupling; Earth's moon; Europa; Ganymede; Io; Libration; Mercury; Subsurface ocean; Titan; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; GEOPHYSICS; MERCURY (METAL); MOON; MOTION ESTIMATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANETS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION; SPHERES; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENCE;

CALLISTO; CENTRIFUGAL INSTABILITY; CORE; CORE-MANTLE COUPLING; EARTH'S MOON; EUROPA; GANYMEDE; IO; LIBRATION; MERCURY; SUBSURFACE OCEAN; TITAN;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

AMPLITUDE; CALLISTO; CORE (PLANETARY); EUROPA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GANYMEDE; IO; LABORATORY METHOD; MERCURY (PLANET); MOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY ROTATION; ROSSBY NUMBER; TITAN; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VISCOUS FLOW;

HUMAN ECHOVIRUS 1;

EID: 60749100322     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.11.012     Document Type: Article

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