End-member models of boundary-modulated convective dynamos

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 187, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 353-363

  Aurnou, Jonathan M ^a   Aubert, Julien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Core mantle interactions; Geophysical fluid dynamics; Planetary dynamos; Stratification

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY FORCING; BOUSSINESQ; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CORE-MANTLE INTERACTION; CRUSTAL MAGNETIZATION; DYNAMO ACTION; DYNAMO MODELS; EARTH'S CORE; FIELD STRUCTURES; FLUID MOTIONS; FLUX PATTERNS; FORCING AMPLITUDES; FUNDAMENTAL SYMMETRIES; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX VARIATIONS; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LIMITING EFFECTS; NUMERICAL DYNAMOS; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; SPATIAL SYMMETRY; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SURFACE MAGNETIZATIONS; THERMAL WINDS; ZONAL FLOWS;

FLUIDS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; RADIOACTIVITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

DC GENERATORS;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEODYNAMO; HEAT FLUX; MAGNETIZATION; MARS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROTATING FLUID; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 80053201476     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.05.011     Document Type: Article

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