The Effects of Rotation Rate on Deep Convection in Giant Planets with Small Solid Cores

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2006-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607584v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.pss.2006.07.008

We study how the pattern of thermal convection and differential rotation in the interior of a giant gaseous planet is affected by the presence of a small solid core as a function of the planetary rotation rate. We show, using 2D anelastic, hydrodynamic simulations, that the presence of a small solid core results in significantly different flow structure relative to that of a fully convective interior only if there is little or no planetary rotation.

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