# Equatorially Trapped Convection in a Rapidly Rotating Shallow Shell.

@article{Benjamin2018EquatoriallyTC,
title={Equatorially Trapped Convection in a Rapidly Rotating Shallow Shell.},
author={Miquel Benjamin and Xie Jin-Han and Featherstone Nicholas and Julien Keith and Knobloch Edgar},
journal={arXiv: Fluid Dynamics},
year={2018}
}
• Published 26 April 2018
• Physics
• arXiv: Fluid Dynamics
Motivated by the recent discovery of subsurface oceans on planetary moons and the interest they have generated, we explore convective flows in shallow spherical shells of dimensionless gap width $\varepsilon^2\ll 1$ in the rapid rotation limit $\mathrm{E}\ll1$, where $\mathrm{E}$ is the Ekman number. We employ direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the Boussinesq equations to compute the local heat flux $\mathrm{Nu}(\lambda)$ as a function of the latitude $\lambda$ and use the results to…

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