A dynamo model with double diffusive convection for Mercury's core

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 619-628

  Manglik, Ajay ^a,b   Wicht, Johannes ^a   Christensen, Ulrich R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

double diffusive convection; dynamo; magnetic field; Mercury; planetary core

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; AZIMUTHAL FLOW; BUOYANCY FORCES; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DENSITY STRATIFICATION; DIFFUSIVITIES; DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE; DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION; DYNAMO MODELS; INNER CORE; POLOIDAL MAGNETIC FIELD; SINGLE VARIABLE; STABLE LAYER; SULPHUR CONCENTRATION; SUPERADIABATIC TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; SURFACE MAGNETIC FIELD; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOROIDAL FIELDS; TRANSPORT EQUATION; UPPER LAYER;

BUOYANCY; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SULFUR; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

MERCURY (METAL);

CORE (PLANETARY); CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DIFFUSIVITY; GEODYNAMO; MAGNETIC FIELD; MERCURY (PLANET); PLANETARY SURFACE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 73449138199     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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