The ab initio simulation of the Earth's core

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1795, 2002, Pages 1227-1244

  Alfe D ^a   Gillan, M J ^a   Vocadlo L ^a   Brodholt, J ^a   Price, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ab initio; Computational mineral physics; Earth's core; Iron; Molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

IRON; OXYGEN; SILICON; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; GEOLOGY; HEAT; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; QUANTUM THEORY; SEDIMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; HEAT; IRON; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OXYGEN; PRESSURE; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICON; SULFUR;

EID: 0037098177     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.0992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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