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On hydromagnetic waves in a stratified rotating incompressible fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

R. Hide
R. Hide
Affiliation:
Meteorological Office, Bracknell, Berkshire
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Abstract

The dispersion relationship for plane hydromagnetic waves in a stratified rotating fluid (α) indicates that the well-known analogy between rotating fluids and stratified fluids in regard to their hydrodynamic behaviour does not extend to magnetohydrodynamic behaviour, and (b) lends credence to a certain conjecture made in a previous paper, namely that effects due to density stratification can be neglected when considering the dispersion relationship for free hydromagnetic oscillations of the Earth's core if the Brunt—Väisälä frequency is much less than twice the angular speed of the Earth's rotation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , 10 November 1969 , pp. 283 - 287
Copyright
© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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