Rotating convective turbulence in Earth and planetary cores

JM Aurnou, MA Calkins, JS Cheng, K Julien… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2015 - Elsevier
An accurate description of turbulent core convection is necessary in order to build robust
models of planetary core processes. Towards this end, we focus here on the physics of …

Short timescale core dynamics: theory and observations

CC Finlay, M Dumberry, A Chulliat, MA Pais - Space science reviews, 2010 - Springer
Fluid motions in the Earth's core produce changes in the geomagnetic field (secular
variation) and are also an important ingredient in the planet's rotational dynamics. In this …

Scaling regimes in spherical shell rotating convection

T Gastine, J Wicht, J Aubert - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
Rayleigh–Bénard convection in rotating spherical shells can be considered as a simplified
analogue of many astrophysical and geophysical fluid flows. Here, we use three …

Turbulent convective length scale in planetary cores

C Guervilly, P Cardin, N Schaeffer - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Convection is a fundamental physical process in the fluid cores of planets. It is the primary
transport mechanism for heat and chemical species and the primary energy source for …

Thermal and compositional convection in the outer core

CA Jones, G Schubert - Treatise in Geophysics, Core Dynamics, 2015 - books.google.com
Thermal and compositional convection in the outer core Page 146 5 Thermal and
Compositional Convection in the Outer Core CA Jones, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK ª 2009 …

Stable stratification promotes multiple zonal jets in a turbulent Jovian dynamo model

T Gastine, J Wicht - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
The ongoing NASA's Juno mission puts new constraints on the internal dynamics of Jupiter.
Data gathered by its onboard magnetometer reveal a dipole-dominated surface magnetic …

Quasi-geostrophic flows responsible for the secular variation of the Earth's magnetic field

MA Pais, D Jault - Geophysical Journal International, 2008 - academic.oup.com
We present core flows constructed from high resolution secular variation (SV) models for the
epochs 2001, 2002.5 and 2004, assuming that these flows are quasi-geostrophic in the core …

Force balance in rapidly rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection

AJA Guzmán, M Madonia, JS Cheng… - Journal of fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The force balance of rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection regimes is investigated using
direct numerical simulation on a laterally periodic domain, vertically bounded by no-slip …

[BOOK][B] Rotating thermal flows in natural and industrial processes

M Lappa - 2012 - books.google.com
Rotating Thermal Flows in Natural and Industrial Processes provides the reader with a
systematic description of the different types of thermal convection and flow instabilities in …

A nonlinear model for rotationally constrained convection with Ekman pum**

K Julien, JM Aurnou, MA Calkins… - Journal of Fluid …, 2016 - cambridge.org
A reduced model is developed for low-Rossby-number convection in a plane layer geometry
with no-slip upper and lower boundaries held at fixed temperatures. A complete description …