Temperature-dependent viscoelastic modeling of ground deformation: Application to Etna volcano during the 1993-1997 inflation period

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 172, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 299-309

  Del Negro, Ciro ^a   Currenti, Gilda ^a   Scandura, Danila ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D thermo viscoelastic model; Etna volcano; Finite Element Method; Ground deformation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RIGIDITY; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOELASTICITY; VOLCANOES;

3D THERMO-VISCOELASTIC MODEL; EARTH'S CRUSTS; EFFECTIVE VISCOSITIES; ELASTIC MODELS; ERUPTIVE ACTIVITIES; ETNA VOLCANO; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; GROUND DEFORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; HIGH TEMPERATURES; LOWER PRESSURES; MAGMATIC SOURCES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PRESSURE CHANGES; PRESSURE INCREASES; PRESSURE SOURCES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SYMMETRIC PROBLEMS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES; THERMO MECHANICALS; VISCOELASTIC MATERIALS; VISCOELASTIC MEDIUMS; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATIONS; VISCOELASTIC RESPONSES; VISCOELASTIC SOLUTIONS; VOLCANIC AREAS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; VISCOELASTICITY; VOLCANO;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 57749100067     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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