# Scaling regimes in spherical shell rotating convection

@article{Gastine2016ScalingRI,
title={Scaling regimes in spherical shell rotating convection},
author={Thomas Gastine and Johannes Wicht and Julien Aubert},
journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
year={2016},
volume={808},
pages={690 - 732}
}
• Published 8 September 2016
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• Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Rayleigh–Bénard convection in rotating spherical shells can be considered as a simplified analogue of many astrophysical and geophysical fluid flows. Here, we use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations to study this physical process. We construct a dataset of more than 200 numerical models that cover a broad parameter range with Ekman numbers spanning $3\times 10^{-7}\leqslant E\leqslant 10^{-1}$ , Rayleigh numbers within the range $10^{3}<Ra<2\times 10^{10}$ and a Prandtl number of…
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