Simulations of fluid motion in ellipsoidal planetary cores driven by longitudinal libration

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 187, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 391-403

  Chan, Kit H ^a   Liao, Xinhao ^b   Zhang, Keke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ellipsoid; Longitudinal libration; Planetary fluid cores

Indexed keywords

AXIAL TORQUE; DIRECTION OF ROTATION; ELEMENT BY ELEMENTS; ELLIPSOID; ELLIPSOIDAL CAVITY; FLUID MOTIONS; GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTION; LONGITUDINAL LIBRATION; MEAN FLOW; MULTI-LAYERED; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PERIODIC VARIATION; PLANETARY FLUID CORES; ROTATION SPEED; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TIDAL FORCES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROTATION;

FLUIDS;

CORE (PLANETARY); COUPLING; ECCENTRICITY; ELLIPSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GRAVITY FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; PROGRADATION;

EID: 80053198413     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.04.015     Document Type: Article

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