The evolution of material surfaces in convection with variable viscosity as monitored by a characteristics-based method

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2001-2004

  Ten, Arkady ^a,b   Yuen, David A ^a   Larsen, Tine B ^a   Malevsky, Andrei V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HEAT CONVECTION; INTEGRATION; MIXING; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; RHEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; VORTEX FLOW;

CHARACTERISTICS BASED METHOD; EVOLUTION; FLOW STRUCTURE; MATERIALS SURFACES; NEWTONIAN PLUMES; NON NEWTONIAN TEMPERATURE; SPLINE CHARACTERISTIC METHOD; TIME DEPENDENT CONVECTION;

SURFACES;

CHARACTERISTICS BASED METHOD; CONVECTION; FLOW PROCESS; MATERIAL SURFACE; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0030210545     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02182     Document Type: Article

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