Thermochemically driven convection in a rotating spherical shell

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 150-162

  Breuer, M ^a   Manglik, A ^b,c   Wicht, J ^c   Trumper T ^a   Harder, H ^a   Hansen, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamo: theories and simulations; Numerical solutions; Planetary interiors

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DIFFUSIVITY; COMPOSITIONAL DIFFERENCE; CONVECTIVE FLOW; DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION; DRIVING MECHANISM; DRIVING SOURCE; DYNAMO: THEORIES AND SIMULATIONS; EXTREME CASE; FINITE-VOLUME FORMULATION; GLOBAL QUANTITIES; INNER CORE; IRON CORES; JOINT ACTIONS; LIGHT ELEMENTS; MEAN ENERGY; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PLANETARY INTERIORS; PSEUDOSPECTRAL; SPHERICAL SHELL; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FLOW PATTERNS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

ROTATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONVECTION; CORE (PLANETARY); FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GEODYNAMO; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 78349297970     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04722.x     Document Type: Article

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