ON CONVECTION DRIVEN DYNAMOS IN ROTATING SPHERICAL-SHELLS

Authors
BUSSE FH GROTE E TILGNER A
Citation
Fh. Busse et al., ON CONVECTION DRIVEN DYNAMOS IN ROTATING SPHERICAL-SHELLS, Studia geophysica et geodaetica, 42(3), 1998, pp. 211-223
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Geochemitry & Geophysics
Journal title
Studia geophysica et geodaetica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00393169
Volume
42
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
211 - 223
Database
ISI
SICI code
0039-3169(1998)42:3<211:OCDDIR>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
Solutions for chaotic dynamos driven by thermal convection in a rotati ng spherical shell are obtained numerically for different Prandtl numb ers. The influence of this parameter which is usually suppressed in th e magnetostrophic approximation is emphasized in the present analysis.