THE DYNAMO BIFURCATION IN ROTATING SPHERICAL SHELLS

DOI10.1142/S021797920906378XMaRDI QIDQ3405849zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vincent Morin, E. Dormy

Publication date 12 February 2010

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1144

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationsdynamo theoryinstabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geo-electricity and geomagnetism (86A25)

Abstract: We investigate the nature of the dynamo bifurcation in a configuration applicable to the Earth's liquid outer core, i.e. in a rotating spherical shell with thermally driven motions. We show that the nature of the bifurcation, which can be either supercritical or subcritical or even take the form of isola (or detached lobes) strongly depends on the parameters. This dependence is described in a range of parameters numerically accessible (which unfortunately remains remote from geophysical application), and we show how the magnetic Prandtl number and the Ekman number control these transitions.

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