Dynamical consequences of mid-mantle viscosity stratification on mantle flows with an endothermic phase transition

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 181-184

  Cserepes, László ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CONVECTIVE FLOWS; ENDOTHERMIC PHASE TRANSITION; MANTLE; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL CARTESIAN MODEL; VISCOSITY STRATIFICATION;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

MANTLE; PHASE TRANSITION; STRATIFICATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0030800978     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03917     Document Type: Article

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