Numerical modeling of magnetohydrodynamic convection in a rapidly rotating spherical shell: Weak and strong field dynamo action

DOI10.1006/jcph.1999.6274zbMath0957.76096OpenAlexW2039103665MaRDI QIDQ1302904

Weijia Kuang, Jeremy Bloxham

Publication date: 2 March 2000

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1999.6274

zbMATH Keywords

parallelizationbuoyancy forcesBoussinesq fluidgeomagnetismaxisymmetric inertial forceKumar-Roberts kinematic dynamosmagnetohydrodynamic convective flowmixed spectral-finite difference algorithmpurely thermal convectionrapidly rotating spherical shellstrong-field dynamo solutionsweak-field dynamo solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Geo-electricity and geomagnetism (86A25)

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