Helicity generation and subcritical behaviour in rapidly rotating dynamos

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 688, Issue , 2011, Pages 5-30

  Sreenivasan, Binod ^a   Jones, Chris A ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dynamo theory; geodynamo; magnetoconvection

Indexed keywords

LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MAGNETIC FIELDS; NUMBER THEORY; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CRITICAL RAYLEIGH NUMBER; DIPOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; DYNAMO THEORIES; GEODYNAMO; HELICITY GENERATIONS; MAGNETOCONVECTION; ROTATING CONVECTION; STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS;

INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

EKMAN LAYER; GEODYNAMO; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 80955177838     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.233     Document Type: Article

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