Degree-one mantle convection: Dependence on internal heating and temperature-dependent rheology

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-5

  McNamara, Allen K ^a,b   Zhong, Shijie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; HEATING; MOON; PLANETS; RHEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY;

MANTLE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SUPERCONTINENT; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYERS;

GEOPHYSICS;

MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 16344375292     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021082     Document Type: Article

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