Numerical modelling of lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction in a subduction zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 698-708

  Bonnardot, M A ^a   Hassani, R ^b   Tric, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

2 D numerical modelling; slab dynamics; solid fluid coupling; stress regime; subduction zone

Indexed keywords

(ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; APPLIED (CO); COUPLING METHODS; ELASTO PLASTIC; ELSEVIER (CO); FINITE ELEMENT (FE); FLUID DOMAINS; FLUID PROBLEMS; FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETER (FP); LINEAR DECREASE; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL INSTABILITIES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PLATE DEFORMATION; RE-MESHING; SLAB GEOMETRY; SOLID-FLUID COUPLING; STABILISATION; STOKES PROBLEM; STRESS REGIMES; STRONG COUPLINGS; SUBDUCTION PROCESSES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; TIME STEPPING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D); UPPER PLATE; VISCOUS RESISTANCE;

ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUIDS; HEALTH; HYDRODYNAMICS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SOLID SOLUTIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LITHOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 48149109079     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.009     Document Type: Article

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