Maffei, S., Jackson, A. and Livermore, P.W. orcid.org/0000-0001-7591-6716 (2024) Plesio-geostrophy for Earth’s core – II: thermal equations and onset of convection. Geophysical Journal International, 239 (1). pp. 725-753. ISSN 0956-540X
Abstract
The columnar-flow approximation allows the development of computationally efficient numerical models tailored to the study of the rapidly rotating dynamics of Earth’s fluid outer core. In this paper, we extend a novel columnar-flow formulation, called Plesio-Geostrophy (PG) by including thermal effects and viscous boundary conditions. The effect of both no-slip and stress-free boundaries, the latter being a novelty for columnar-flow models, are included. We obtain a set of fully 2-D evolution equations for fluid flows and temperature where no assumption is made regarding the geometry of the latter, except in the derivation of an approximate thermal diffusion operator. To test the new PG implementation, we calculated the critical parameters for onset of thermal convection in a spherical domain. We found that the PG model prediction is in better agreement with unapproximated, 3-D calculations in rapidly rotating regimes, compared to another state-of-the-art columnar-flow model.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Core, Dynamo: theories and simulations, Numerical approximations and analysis, Numerical modelling |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Inst of Geophysics and Tectonics (IGT) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2024 12:29 |
Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2024 12:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/gji/ggae294 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217261 |