Hydrodynamic helicity in Boussinesq-type models of the geodynamo |
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Authors: | M Yu Reshetnyak |
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Institution: | (1) Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bol’shaya Gruzinskaya ul. 10, Moscow, 123995, Russia |
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Abstract: | The generation of hydrodynamic helicity is considered in models of thermal convection of a rapidly rotating incompressible liquid (small Rossby numbers). It is shown that a system of cyclonic vortices arising in geodynamo models generates a large-scale hydrodynamic helicity. The spatial distribution of the helicity is analyzed as a function of the intensity of heat sources in models with various boundary conditions for the velocity field. |
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