Dynamics of Rotating Fluids

I study, both experimentally and theoretically, the oscillations of rotating fluids contained in ellipsoids and ellipsoidal shells. These studies have applications in rotating stars and planetary fluid cores. I also study elliptical instability in the Earth's fluid core, its effects on the Earth's free wobble, and as a possible source of energy for geodynamo. I use scalar representation of the field variables to solve the governing equations describing the dynamics of rotating fluids.

For simple experiments in rotating fluids have a look at the following experiment.

Selected Publications

Behnam Seyed-Mahmoud, Ali Moradi, Dynamics of the Earth's fluid core: implementation of a

Clairaut coordinate system, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2013.11.007

 

Behnam Seyed-Mahmoud and Mark Tipper, Gravity and inertial modes of rotating stars, 2008, Astrophysical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,102, No. 4, August 2008, 383–395

 

J. Arkani-Hamed, B. Seyed-Mahmoud, K. Aldridge and R. Baker, Tidal excitation of Elliptical Instability in the Martian core: Possible Mechanism for Generating the Core Dynamo, 2008, Journal of Geophysical Research,113, E06003, Doi:10.1029/2007JE002982, 2008

 

Behnam Seyed-Mahmoud, John Heikoop and Refah Seyed-Mahmoud, Inertial modes of a compressible fluid core model, 2007, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 101, 489–505

 

Behnam Seyed-Mahmoud, Michael Rochester, Dynamics of rotating fluids described by scalar potentials, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2006, 156, 143–151

 

Behnam Seyed-Mahmoud, Keith Aldridge, Gary Henderson, Elliptical instability in rotating ellipsoidal fluid shells: applications to the Earth's fluid core, 2004, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 142, 257–282