The dynamics of lava flows

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 32, Issue , 2000, Pages 477-518

  Griffiths, R W ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bingham fluids; Cooling; Emplacement dynamics; Gravity currents; Melting; Rheology; Solidification; Viscous flow

Indexed keywords

BINGHAM FLUIDS; LAVA FLOWS;

CHANNEL FLOW; COOLING; CREEP; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MELTING; MOLTEN MATERIALS; PLASTIC FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; SOLIDIFICATION; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER;

MULTIPHASE FLOW; FLOW OF FLUIDS;

LAVA FLOWS;

COOLING; CURRENT; GRAVITY; LAVA FLOW; MELTING; RHEOLOGY; SOLIDIFICATION; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 0034353770     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.477     Document Type: Article

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