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Effects of the Librationally Induced Flow in Mercury’s Fluid Core with an Outer Stably Stratified Layer

  • Authors: Fleur Seuren, Santiago A. Triana, Jérémy Rekier, Ankit Barik, Tim Van Hoolst

Fleur Seuren et al 2023 The Planetary Science Journal 4 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Kinetic energy density inside the core for the m = 0 libration forcing as a function of (a) the forcing frequency ω for different profiles of the Brunt–Väisälä frequency at the CMB and (b) the Brunt–Väisälä frequency N 0 at the peak forcing frequency ω = 0.6576 (denoted by the dashed–dotted vertical line). The solid vertical line coincides with the observed libration frequency ω = 0.67 in Mercury, and the remaining model parameters are E = 10−8, r C = 0.7, h = 0.1, and r ICB = 0.4.

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