Comparison of mixing properties in convection with the particle-line method

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3205-3208

  Ten, Arkady A ^a,b   Podladchikov, Yuri Yu ^c   Yuen, David A ^a   Larsen, Tine B ^d   Malevsky, Andrei V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RHEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VISCOSITY;

MANTLE; CONTOUR DYNAMICS; MIXING PROCESS; MIXING PROPERTY; NON-NEWTONIAN RHEOLOGY; PARTICLE METHODS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY;

EARTH (PLANET); NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

MANTLE CONVECTION; MIXING; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 0032529757     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL51991     Document Type: Article

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