On a dynamo driven by topographic precession

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 467-501

  Wu, Cheng Chin ^a   Roberts, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid dynamos; Poincar flow

Indexed keywords

CORE FLOW; CORE-MANTLE INTERFACES; DYNAMO ACTION; EARTH'S CORE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING FLUIDS; FORCED FLOWS; MAGNETIC FORCE; NON-SPHERICAL; OBLATENESS; PARAMETER RANGE; POINCARE; TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES; VISCOUS FORCES;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DC GENERATORS;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEODYNAMO; MAGNETIC FIELD; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHOD; TOPOGRAPHY; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 74749108135     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091920903311788     Document Type: Article

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