A thick pipe-like heat-transfer mechanism in the mantle: Nonlinear coupling between 3-D convection and variable thermal conductivity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-20

  Dubuffet, Fabien ^a,b   Yuen, David A ^a,b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; TECTONICS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

MANTLE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

GEOPHYSICS;

CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0034352555     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008338     Document Type: Article

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