Cooling patterns in rotating thin spherical shells - Application to Titan's subsurface ocean
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F20%3A10420958" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/20:10420958 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Nhq3yDC53r" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Nhq3yDC53r</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113509" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113509</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cooling patterns in rotating thin spherical shells - Application to Titan's subsurface ocean
Original language description
We use rotating convection simulations in a thin spherical shell to study fluid dynamics in subsurface oceans of icy moons. We find two types of persistent results, characterized by larger outer boundary heat flux either at polar regions or at the equatorial region. Simulations corresponding to larger Rossby numbers result in polar cooling with moderate lateral heterogeneity in heat flux, whereas lower Rossby numbers give equatorial cooling with more pronounced heat flux heterogeneity. The polar cooling scenario is in agreement with inferences for the heat flux at the top of Titan's ocean, which may provide a dynamical constraint for the vigor of convection in this layer. Our results may help unraveling the internal dynamics and the interactions among the different layers within the hydrosphere of Titan. Possible implications for the deep interiors of other icy moons are envisaged.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Icarus
ISSN
0019-1035
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
338
Issue of the periodical within the volume
March
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
113509
UT code for WoS article
000516888000028
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85075181685