Simulations of fluid motion in spheroidal planetary cores driven by latitudinal libration

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 187, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 404-415

  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

Latitudinal libration; Planetary fluid cores; Spheroid

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; ELEMENT BY ELEMENTS; ELLIPSOIDAL CAVITY; FLUID MOTIONS; INERTIAL WAVES; LATITUDINAL LIBRATION; NON-DIMENSIONAL FREQUENCY; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NONRESONANT; PLANETARY EVOLUTIONS; PLANETARY FLUID CORES; SPHEROID; SPHEROIDAL CAVITIES; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; VISCOUS BOUNDARY LAYERS; VISCOUS FLUIDS; WAVE NUMBERS; ZONAL FLOWS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUIDS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CORE (PLANETARY); ECCENTRICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID FLOW; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; SPHERE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOUS FLOW; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 80053207519     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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