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Librational Fluid Dynamics Experiments

 
 

Noir, J., Hemmerlin, F., Wicht, J., Baca, S.M., and Aurnou, J.M., 2009, An experimental and numerical study of librationally driven flow in planetary cores and subsurface oceans, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 173: 141 - 152.

This page contains links to 3 movies from our laboratory simulations of planetary libration-driven fluid dynamics made by Noir et al. (2009).

Please click on each image to access linked file.

  
 
  Movie 1:  This movie shows the libration device first viewed from the laboratory frame and then the librating tank viewed from inside the rotating frame. Movie 2: This movie shows flow near the  fluid's outer boundary in the "Longitudinal Rolls" regime.  The camera is situated in the laboratory frame.
 
   
  Movie 3: This movie shows flow near the  fluid's outer boundary in the "Boundary Turbulence" regime.  Here, the camera is situated in the rotating frame.  
  Movie 3: This movie shows flow near the  fluid's outer boundary in the "Boundary Turbulence" regime.  Here, the camera is situated in the rotating frame.  
 
 

Tangent Cylinder Convection Experiments

  
 

J.M. Aurnou, S. Andreadis, L. Zhu and P.L. Olson, 2003, Experiments on convection in Earth's core tangent cylinder, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 212, 119-134.

This page contains links to 3 movies from laboratory simulations of thermal convection in Earth's core made by Aurnou et al. (2003).

Please click on each image to access linked file.

  
 
  Movie 1:  This movie shows the libration device first viewed from the laboratory frame and then the librating tank viewed from inside the rotating frame. Movie 2: This movie shows flow near the  fluid's outer boundary in the "Longitudinal Rolls" regime.  The camera is situated in the laboratory frame.
 
   
  Movie 3: This movie shows flow near the  fluid's outer boundary in the "Boundary Turbulence" regime.  Here, the camera is situated in the rotating frame.  
 
  Last updated on April 08, 2009