Fluid Dynamics Experiments for Planetary Interiors.
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| Title: | Fluid Dynamics Experiments for Planetary Interiors. |
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| Authors: | Le Bars, Michael1 (AUTHOR), Barik, Ankit2 (AUTHOR), Burmann, Fabian3 (AUTHOR), Lathrop, Daniel P.4 (AUTHOR), Noir, Jerome3 (AUTHOR) jerome.noir@erdw.ethz.ch, Schaeffer, Nathanael5 (AUTHOR), Triana, Santiago A.6 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Surveys in Geophysics. Feb2022, Vol. 43 Issue 1, p229-261. 33p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Fluid dynamics, *Planetary interiors, *Fluid flow, *Turbulence, *Gravity |
| Abstract: | Understanding fluid flows in planetary cores and subsurface oceans, as well as their signatures in available observational data (gravity, magnetism, rotation, etc.), is a tremendous interdisciplinary challenge. In particular, it requires understanding the fundamental fluid dynamics involving turbulence and rotation at typical scales well beyond our day-to-day experience. To do so, laboratory experiments are fully complementary to numerical simulations, especially in systematically exploring extreme flow regimes for long duration. In this review article, we present some illustrative examples where experimental approaches, complemented by theoretical and numerical studies, have been key for a better understanding of planetary interior flows driven by some type of mechanical forcing. We successively address the dynamics of flows driven by precession, by libration, by differential rotation, and by boundary topography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | Understanding fluid flows in planetary cores and subsurface oceans, as well as their signatures in available observational data (gravity, magnetism, rotation, etc.), is a tremendous interdisciplinary challenge. In particular, it requires understanding the fundamental fluid dynamics involving turbulence and rotation at typical scales well beyond our day-to-day experience. To do so, laboratory experiments are fully complementary to numerical simulations, especially in systematically exploring extreme flow regimes for long duration. In this review article, we present some illustrative examples where experimental approaches, complemented by theoretical and numerical studies, have been key for a better understanding of planetary interior flows driven by some type of mechanical forcing. We successively address the dynamics of flows driven by precession, by libration, by differential rotation, and by boundary topography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 01693298 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10712-021-09681-1 |
