Simulation study of a magnetohydrodynamic dynamo: Convection in a rotating spherical shell
作者:
A. Kageyama,
K. Watanabe,
T. Sato,
期刊:
Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics
(AIP Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 5,
issue 8
页码: 2793-2805
ISSN:0899-8221
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1063/1.860668
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Numerical simulations on the thermal convection of a neutral fluid (without a magnetic field) in a rotating spherical shell have been carried out. The results indicate that sufficiently rapid rotation results in strong differential rotation, with a pronounced equatorial acceleration. The formation dynamics of convection columns aligned to the rotation axis is studied extensively. A new generation mechanism of differential rotation is then proposed which concludes that the fluid motion generates an equatorial acceleration by selectively exciting the cyclonic columns in the spherical shell.
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