Convection in giant planets with and without inner cores

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003agufm.p31a..01e&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract #P31A-01

Physics

3210 Modeling, 5707 Atmospheres: Structure And Dynamics, 5724 Interiors (8147), 6220 Jupiter

Scientific paper

We investigate convection in the interior of an extra-solar giant planet using a simple disk-shaped 2D finite volume model with radial gravity. The finite volume method allows us to easily track fluid motion through the center of the disk (the origin point) for a case without a solid inner core. Our anelastic simulations have a cold, impermeable outer boundary and a radial density stratification. A radial heating source simulates heating by gravitational contraction. We compare convection with and without a solid inner core.

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