A full-sphere convection-driven dynamo: Implications for the ancient geomagnetic field

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 187, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 328-335

  Zhan, Xiaoya ^a   Zhang, Keke ^b   Zhu, Rixiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core convection; Dynamo; Inner core

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION DRIVEN DYNAMOS; CONVECTIVE FLOW; CORE CONVECTION; DYNAMO; DYNAMO MODELS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; INNER CORE; MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTERS; MOLTEN LIQUIDS; SPHERICAL SHELL;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALLIUM; GEOMAGNETISM; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

SPHERES;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; INNER CORE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 80053191567     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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