Experiments on Core Dynamics

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages 319-343

  Cardin, P ^a   Olson, P ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Ekman boundary layers; Experimental dynamos; Fluid experiments; Geostrophic flow; Hartmann layers; Liquid gallium; Liquid sodium; Rotating convection; Stewartson shear layers; Taylor columns; Zonal flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882816016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00136-X     Document Type: Chapter

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