Planetary Interiors

I taught these series of lectures in the course Planetary Interiors by Sabine Stanley. I covered the following topics:

• Overview of planetary magnetic fields
• Spherical harmonics and Gauss coefficients
• Dynamo theory
• Dynamo simulations and experiments

The origin of planetary dynamos lies in conducting fluids in their interiors with different planets having a different conducting fluid.

Notes/Slides :

• Planetary magnetic fields
• Spherical harmonics, Gauss coefficients and continuation
• Dynamo simulations and experiments