Convective heat transfer in planetary dynamo models

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  King, Eric M ^a   Soderlund, Krista M ^a   Christensen, Ulrich R ^b   Wicht, Johannes ^b   Aurnou, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convection; Core; Dynamo; Fluid dynamics; Heat transfer; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954393491     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003053     Document Type: Article

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