High Rayleigh number thermo-chemical models of a dense boundary layer in D″

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2345-2348

  Montague, Nancy L ^a   Kellogg, Louise H ^a   Manga, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS;

BASAL LAYER; LOWER MANTLE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THERMO-CHEMICAL; THERMOCHEMICAL MODELS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; BOUNDARY LAYERS;

CORE MANTLE BOUNDARY (CMB); RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMOCHEMICAL CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032125374     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL51872     Document Type: Article

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