Project Details
Projekt
Numerical Simulations of Models for the Geodynamo
Applicant
Professor Dr. Friedrich H. Busse
Subject Area
Geophysics
Term
from 2000 to 2006
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5250472
The understanding of convection driven dynamos in rotating spherical shells has progressed rapidly in the past decade through the use of large scale numerical simulations such that more specific models can now be considered for the elucidations of properties of the geodynamo operating in the liquid core of the Earth. It is planned to investigate the influence of lateral inhomogeneities at the core-mantle boundary on the generation of magnetic fields and to analyse the processes of execusions and reversals in a systematic manner. In the numerical simulations the use of hyperdiffusivities will be avoided since they appear to introduce unrealistic properties of the dynamo process.
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