The Proceedings of the Thermal Engineering Conference
Online ISSN : 2424-290X
2016
Session ID : G234
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Numerical analysis for a thermal convection in a spherical shell with growth of magnetic field
Yoshihiko Otsuka, Toshio Tagawa
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The purpose of this study is to elucidate the fundamentals of geomagnetism creation of the Earth. For this, we assume a simplified model for numerical computations. The present study considers the interaction between the magnetic field and thermal convection for an incompressible viscous fluid in a rotating spherical shell. For certain combination of parameters, ideal convection structure, which rotates at a constant speed with keeping the fluid and temperature fields, is attained and it may generate magnetic field which grows exponetially during the early stage and finally tends to reach to quasi constant value. It is exhinited that the growth rate of the magnetic field depends on the magnetic Prandtl number.

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