Steady flows at the top of the core from geomagnetic field models:The steady motions theorem

DOI10.1080/03091928508208783MaRDI QIDQ3706776zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Coerte V. Voorhies, George Backus

Publication date 1985

Published in Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928508208783

zbMATH Keywords

electrically insulating mantleglobal flow at the top of the coremodel of the geomagnetic fieldperfect fluid conductorperfectly conducting corerigid, impenetrable exteriorsimple earth modelsteady flowsteady tangential velocitytime varying magnetic flux density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Geo-electricity and geomagnetism (86A25)

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