Viscous heating, adiabatic heating and energetic consistency in compressible mantle convection

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 693-702

  Leng, Wei ^a   Zhong, Shijie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Equations of state; Mantle processes; Numerical solutions

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC PROCESS; ALGORITHM; ANELASTICITY; BUOYANCY FORCING; EQUATION OF STATE; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 42349114937     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03745.x     Document Type: Article

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