First field application of cyclic soft stimulation at the Pohang Enhanced Geothermal System site in Korea

H Hofmann, G Zimmermann, M Farkas… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Precession of planets or moons affects internal liquid layers by driving flows, instabilities and
possibly dynamos. The energy dissipated by these phenomena can influence orbital …

Precessing spherical shells: flows, dissipation, dynamo and the lunar core

D Cébron, R Laguerre, J Noir… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Precession of planets or moons affects internal liquid layers by driving flows, instabilities and
possibly dynamos. The energy dissipated by these phenomena can influence orbital …

The signature of inner-core nucleation on the geodynamo

M Landeau, J Aubert, P Olson - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Energy considerations indicate that the power delivered to the present-day geodynamo
comes mainly from the growth of the solid inner core, through light element and latent heat …

Solutal buoyancy and electrovortex flow in liquid metal batteries

W Herreman, S Bénard, C Nore, P Personnettaz… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Solutal buoyancy has a large impact on the flow of the alloy phase composing the positive
electrode in liquid metal batteries. During discharge solutal buoyancy creates a stabilizing …

[HTML][HTML] Tensor calculus in spherical coordinates using Jacobi polynomials. Part-I: mathematical analysis and derivations

GM Vasil, D Lecoanet, KJ Burns, JS Oishi… - Journal of Computational …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a method for accurate and efficient computations on scalar, vector and
tensor fields in three-dimensional spherical polar coordinates. The method uses spin …

[HTML][HTML] Tensor calculus in spherical coordinates using Jacobi polynomials. Part-II: implementation and examples

D Lecoanet, GM Vasil, KJ Burns, BP Brown… - Journal of Computational …, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a simulation code which can solve a broad range of partial differential equations
in a full sphere. The code expands tensorial variables in a spectral series of spin-weighted …

[HTML][HTML] Shear-driven parametric instability in a precessing sphere

Y Lin, P Marti, J Noir - Physics of Fluids, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The present numerical study aims at shedding light on the mechanism underlying the
precessional instability in a sphere. Precessional instabilities in the form of parametric …

Subcritical thermal convection of liquid metals in a rapidly rotating sphere

EJ Kaplan, N Schaeffer, J Vidal, P Cardin - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Planetary cores consist of liquid metals (low Prandtl number Pr) that convect as the core
cools. Here, we study nonlinear convection in a rotating (low Ekman number Ek) planetary …

Magnetic fields driven by tidal mixing in radiative stars

J Vidal, D Cébron, N Schaeffer… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Stellar magnetism plays an important role in stellar evolution theory. Approximatively 10 per
cent of observed main sequence (MS) and pre-main-sequence (PMS) radiative stars exhibit …

Rotating double-diffusive convection in stably stratified planetary cores

R Monville, J Vidal, D Cébron… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In planetary fluid cores, the density depends on temperature and chemical composition,
which diffuse at very different rates. This leads to various instabilities, bearing the name of …