The evolution of a magnetic field subject to Taylor's constraint using a projection operator

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 690-704

  Livermore, Philip W ^a,b,c   Ierley, Glenn ^a   Jackson, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamo: theories and simulations; Electromagnetic theory; Numerical approximations and analysis; Planetary interiors

Indexed keywords

3D ARRAYS; DECAY TIME; DYNAMO: THEORIES AND SIMULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORIES; FINITE SET; GALERKIN; GEODYNAMO MODELS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL PROBLEMS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLANETARY INTERIORS; PROJECTION METHOD; PROJECTION OPERATOR; RATE OF CHANGE; SOLID ANGLE; SPECTRAL COEFFICIENTS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; TANGENT HYPERPLANE; TANGENT PLANE; TAYLOR STATE; TAYLOR'S CONSTRAINT; TIME-DEPENDENT;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE (PLANETARY); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GALERKIN METHOD; GEODYNAMO; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 80054688550     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05187.x     Document Type: Article

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