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Fig. 2

Description of an internal liquid layer. The tidal forces deform the core-mantle boundary (CMB) in an ellipse of axes a1 and a2, which leads to an ellipticity β of the streamlines. In this layer, the fluid is rotating at the rate Ω.
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