Convection in rotating spherical fluid shells and its dynamo states

Fluid Dynamics and Dynamos in Astrophysics and Geophysics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 359-392

  Busse, F H ^a   Simitev, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

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