Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jun 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002icar..157..426s&link_type=abstract
Icarus, Volume 157, Issue 2, p. 426-435.
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
Recent studies of convection-driven dynamos in the outer core of the Earth have improved our understanding of the dynamical regime in fluid planetary cores. We consider the possible dynamical regimes in the cores of the Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, and hence we estimate the typical velocities and magnetic fields expected in their interiors. These estimates are in reasonable agreement with observations of the large-scale internal fields of those planets. We use the fully self-consistent anelastic MHD (magnetohydrodynamics) equations which have been developed for the Earth, while the details of similar systems for Jupiter and Saturn are specified here. The known heat and composition fluxes together with magnetic, Archimedean, and Coriolis force balance give us typical velocity, entropy, and composition strengths independent of the rather poorly known transport coefficients. Those turbulent diffusion and magnetic diffusion coefficients are also estimated from mixing length theory and compared with available numerical models and standard kinematic approaches.
Jones Alun C.
Starchenko Sergey V.
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