Bridging planets and stars using scaling laws in anelastic spherical shell dynamos
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-06-17 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
Dynamos operating in the interiors of rapidly rotating planets and low-mass stars might belong to a similar category where rotation plays a vital role. We quantify this similarity using scaling laws. We analyse direct numerical simulations of Boussinesq and anelastic spherical shell dynamos. These dynamos represent simplified models which span from Earth-like planets to rapidly rotating low-mass stars. We find that magnetic field and velocity in these dynamos are related to the available buoyancy power via a simple power law which holds over wide variety of control parameters.
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@article{arxiv.1310.0175,
title = {Bridging planets and stars using scaling laws in anelastic spherical shell dynamos},
author = {Rakesh K. Yadav and Thomas Gastine and Ulrich R. Christensen and Lucia D. V. Duarte},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0175},
year = {2015}
}
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2 pages; Proceedings of IAUS 302: Magnetic fields throughout stellar evolution (August 2013, Biarritz, France)