Core eigenmodes and their impact on the Earth's rotation

SA Triana, M Dumberry, D Cébron, J Vidal, A Trinh… - Surveys in …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Changes in the Earth's rotation are deeply connected to fluid dynamical processes
in the outer core. This connection can be explored by studying the associated Earth …

Fast quasi‐geostrophic Magneto‐Coriolis modes in the Earth's core

F Gerick, D Jault, J Noir - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fast changes of Earth's magnetic field could be explained by inviscid and diffusion‐less
quasi‐geostrophic (QG) Magneto‐Coriolis modes. We present a hybrid QG model with …

Precession-driven flows in stress-free ellipsoids

J Vidal, D Cébron - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Motivated by modelling rotating turbulence in planetary fluid layers, we investigate
precession-driven flows in ellipsoids subject to stress-free boundary conditions (SF-BC). The …

Inertia-gravity waves in geophysical vortices

J Vidal, Y Colin de Verdière - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Pancake-like vortices are often generated by turbulence in geophysical flows. Here, we
study the inertia-gravity oscillations that can exist within such geophysical vortices, due to …

Mean zonal flows induced by weak mechanical forcings in rotating spheroids

D Cébron, J Vidal, N Schaeffer, A Borderies… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
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 …

Pressure torque of torsional Alfvén modes acting on an ellipsoidal mantle

F Gerick, D Jault, J Noir, J Vidal - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the pressure torque between the fluid core and the solid mantle arising from
magnetohydrodynamic modes in a rapidly rotating planetary core. A 2-D reduced model of …

Acoustic spectra of a gas-filled rotating spheroid

S Su, D Cébron, HC Nataf, P Cardin, J Vidal… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The acoustic spectrum of a gas-filled resonating cavity can be used to indirectly probe its
internal velocity field. This unconventional velocimetry method is particularly interesting for …

Acoustic and inertial modes in planetary-like rotating ellipsoids

J Vidal, D Cébron - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The bounded oscillations of rotating fluid-filled ellipsoids can provide physical insight into
the flow dynamics of deformed planetary interiors. The inertial modes, sustained by the …

The spectrum of the Poincar {\'e} operator in an ellipsoid

YC de Verdiere, J Vidal - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01369, 2023 - arxiv.org
We reprove the fact, due to Backus, that the Poincar {\'e} operator in ellipsoids admits a pure
point spectrum with polynomial eigenfunctions. We then show that the eigenvalues of the …

Kinematic dynamos in triaxial ellipsoids

J Vidal, D Cébron - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Planetary magnetic fields are generated by motions of electrically conducting fluids in their
interiors. The dynamo problem has thus received much attention in spherical geometries …