Thermal convection heated both volumetrically and from below: Implications for predictions of planetary evolution

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 173, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 290-296

  Choblet, G ^a   Parmentier, E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary condition; Mantle convection; Planetary interiors; Thermal evolution

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; HEAT CONVECTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CORE COOLING; FIRST ORDERS; FREE SLIPS; HEAT SOURCES; HOT PLUMES; HOT SPOTS; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; MAGNETIC DYNAMOS; MANTLE CONVECTION; NO-SLIP BOUNDARIES; NO-SLIP CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PLANETARY EVOLUTIONS; PLANETARY INTERIORS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; THERMAL CONVECTIONS; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL STRUCTURES; VELOCITY STRUCTURES; VOLUMETRIC HEAT SOURCES; VOLUMETRIC HEATING;

HEATING;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; HEAT SOURCE; HEATING; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 62949122309     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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