ŒDIPUS: A new tool to study the dynamics of planetary interiors

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-30

  Choblet, Gael ^a   Cadek O ^b   Couturier, F ^a   Dumoulin, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dynamic topography; Geoid; Internal dynamics; Numerical models; Planetary mantles

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GEOID; MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMAL CONVECTION; TOPOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34447262603     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03419.x     Document Type: Article

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