3 papers
astro-ph.SR2025
Excitation of Inertial Modes in 3D Simulations of Rotating Convection in Planets and Stars
J. R. Fuentes, Ankit Barik, Jim Fuller
Thermal convection in rotating stars and planets drives anisotropic turbulence and differential rotation, both capable of feeding energy into global oscillations. Using 3D simulati…
physics.flu-dyn2024
Transition to turbulence in the wide-gap spherical Couette system
Ankit Barik, Santiago A. Triana, Michael Hoff +1
The spherical Couette system consists of two differentially rotating concentric spheres with a fluid filled in between. We study a regime where the outer sphere is rotating rapidly…
astro-ph.IM2024
planetMagFields: A Python package for analyzing and plotting planetary magnetic field data
Ankit Barik, Regupathi Angappan
Long term observations and space missions have generated a wealth of data on the magnetic fields of the Earth and other solar system planets. planetMagfields is a Python package de…