Because of gravitational interactions with their companions, the rotational dynamics of
planets and stars involve periodic perturbations of their shape, the direction of their …

Understanding fluid flows in planetary cores and subsurface oceans, as well as their
signatures in available observational data (gravity, magnetism, rotation, etc.), is a …

The combination of elliptical deformation of streamlines and vorticity can lead to the
destabilization of any rotating flow via the elliptical instability. Such a mechanism has been …

Planets and satellites can undergo physical librations, which consist of forced periodic
variations in their rotation rate induced by gravitational interactions with nearby bodies. This …

In this paper, we present an experimental investigation of the turbulent saturation of the flow
driven by the parametric resonance of inertial waves in a rotating fluid. In our set-up, a half …

Internal shear layers generated by the longitudinal libration of the inner core in a spherical
shell rotating at a rate for the amplitudes of the main and secondary beams, respectively, are …

In the outer solar system, a growing number of giant planet satellites are now known to be
abodes for global oceans hidden below an outer layer of ice. These planetary oceans are a …

Longitudinal libration corresponds to the periodic oscillation of a body's rotation rate and is,
along with precessional and tidal forcings, a possible source of mechanically-driven …

The generation of mean flows is a long-standing issue in rotating fluids. Motivated by
planetary objects, we consider here a rapidly rotating fluid-filled spheroid, which is subject to …

The process by which the subsurface ocean on Enceladus is heated remains a puzzle. Tidal
interaction with Saturn and Dione is the leading candidate but whether the dominant heating …