Thermo-mechanical adjustment after impacts during planetary growth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Monteux, Julien ^a   Coltice, Nicolas ^a   Dubuffet, Fabien ^a   Ricard, Yanick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COOLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMAL DIFFUSION; VISCOSITY;

AXISYMMETRIC CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; MOTIONLESS THERMAL DIFFUSION; PLANETARY GROWTH; THERMO-MECHANICAL ADJUSTMENT;

PLANETS;

ADVECTION; HEATING; MARS; MOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOMECHANICS;

EID: 39549109105     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031635     Document Type: Article

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