2 papers
astro-ph.SR2016
New approach to scaling rules for stellar and planetary dynamos
Bertrand Barrois
Glorified dimensional analysis is used to derive scaling rules for internal and external magnetic field strengths and various time scales. Naive dimensional analysis is inconclusiv…
astro-ph2003
Secrets of Magnetohydrodynamic Hell: The Solar Circulation Paradox and the Geodynamo
Bertrand C. Barrois
Differential rotation is widely supposed to be essential for the dynamo effects that sustain solar and planetary magnetic fields, but dynamo effects tend to oppose the flows that d…