Tidal excitation of hydromagnetic waves and their damping in the Earth

DOI10.1017/S0022112094002107zbMath0814.76045MaRDI QIDQ4319590

R. R. Kerswell

Publication date: 11 January 1995

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112094002107

zbMATH Keywords

outer core; elliptical instability; fluid-filled rotating spheroid; Ohmic and viscous decay rates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76W05: Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

86A25: Geo-electricity and geomagnetism

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• On the three-dimensional instability of strained vortices
• On the Stability of a Maclaurin Spheroid of Small Viscosity.