Making Waves in the Core of the Earth

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• Oliver Bardsley. University of Cambridge (CUED)
• Friday 26 May 2017, 13:00-14:00
• JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Garazi Gomez-de-Segura.

I make the claim that the outer core of the Earth, a rapidly-rotating, electrically-conducting ocean vigorously stirred by convective upwellings, is a breeding ground for a diverse zoo of wave motions. These are highly dispersive (since propagation velocity depends on wavelength), anisotropic (due to the rotation axis and local magnetic field direction), caustical (or “self-focussing”), heterogeneous (due to a spatially-varying field), dissipative (owing to the field’s diffusive nature), and non-linear (necessarily, if they are to alter field topology). I address all but one of these peculiarities, unearthing some interesting phenomena along the way, and perhaps opening a small window onto planetary core dynamics – specifically the mechanisms which may encourage dynamo action.

This talk is part of the Engineering Fluids Group Seminar series.

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• Acoustics Lab Seminars
• Engineering Department Acoustics/Combustion Student seminars
• Engineering Fluids Group Seminar
• JDB Seminar Room, CUED

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