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| Titel: |
Experimental study of super-rotation in a magnetostrophic spherical Couette flow |
| Auteur: |
Nataf, H. -C. Alboussiere, T. Brito, D. Cardin, P. Gagniere, N. Jault, D. Masson, J. -P. Schmitt, D. |
| Verschenen in: |
Geophysical & astrophysical fluid dynamics |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 100 (2006) nr. 4-5 pagina's 281-298 |
| Jaar: |
2006-08-01 |
| Inhoud: |
We report measurements of electric potentials at the surface of a spherical container of liquid sodium in which a magnetized inner core is differentially rotating. The azimuthal angular velocities inferred from these potentials reveal a strong super-rotation of the liquid sodium in the equatorial region, for small differential rotation. Super-rotation was observed in numerical simulations by Dormy et al. (Dormy, E., Cardin, P. and Jault, D., MHD flow in a slightly differentially rotating spherical shell, with conducting inner core, in a dipolar magnetic field, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 1998, 160, 15--30). We find that the latitudinal variation of the electric potentials in our experiments differs markedly from the predictions of a similar numerical model, suggesting that some of the assumptions used in the model - steadiness, equatorial symmetry, and linear treatment for the evolution of both the magnetic and velocity fields - are violated in the experiments. In addition, radial velocity measurements, using ultrasonic Doppler velocimetry, provide evidence of oscillatory motion near the outer sphere at low latitude: it is viewed as the signature of an instability of the super-rotating region. |
| Uitgever: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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