Magnetic Taylor-Proudman constraint explains the flows into the Tangent Cylinder

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Auteurs principaux: Pothérat, Alban, Aujogue, Kélig, Debray, François
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author Pothérat, Alban
Aujogue, Kélig
Debray, François
author_facet Pothérat, Alban
Aujogue, Kélig
Debray, François
contents Tangent Cylinders (TCs) have shaped our understanding of planetary dynamos and liquid cores. The Taylor-Proudman Constraint (TPC) due to planetary rotation creates these imaginary surfaces separating polar and equatorial regions but cannot explain the flows meandering through them. Here we establish and verify experimentally that magnetic fields aligned with rotation drive flows \emph{into} TCs, linked to the flows \emph{along} TCs by a \emph{magnetic} Taylor-Proudman constraint. This constraint explains and quantifies how magnetic fields reshape rotating flows in planetary interiors and magnetorotating flows in general.
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spellingShingle Magnetic Taylor-Proudman constraint explains the flows into the Tangent Cylinder
Pothérat, Alban
Aujogue, Kélig
Debray, François
Fluid Dynamics
Geophysics
Tangent Cylinders (TCs) have shaped our understanding of planetary dynamos and liquid cores. The Taylor-Proudman Constraint (TPC) due to planetary rotation creates these imaginary surfaces separating polar and equatorial regions but cannot explain the flows meandering through them. Here we establish and verify experimentally that magnetic fields aligned with rotation drive flows \emph{into} TCs, linked to the flows \emph{along} TCs by a \emph{magnetic} Taylor-Proudman constraint. This constraint explains and quantifies how magnetic fields reshape rotating flows in planetary interiors and magnetorotating flows in general.
title Magnetic Taylor-Proudman constraint explains the flows into the Tangent Cylinder
topic Fluid Dynamics
Geophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08840