Onset of convection in a basally heated spherical shell, application to planets

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 176, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 157-173

  Behounkova, Marie ^a,b   Choblet, Gaël ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Onset of convection; Scaling laws; Shell geometry; Sluggish rid regime; Temperature dependent viscosity

Indexed keywords

3D SIMULATIONS; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; COMPOSITIONAL ORIGINS; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; CORE FORMATION; DENSITY VARIATIONS; DYNAMICAL REGIME; FREE-SLIP; GEOMETRICAL FACTORS; INITIAL STATE; INSTABILITY ANALYSIS; LINEAR STABILITY; LOW DEGREE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ONSET OF CONVECTION; ONSET-TIME; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SHELL GEOMETRY; SHELL THICKNESS; SIMPLE METHOD; SLUGGISH RID REGIME; SOLID-STATE CONVECTION; SPHERICAL SHELL; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; VISCOSITY CONTRAST; VISCOSITY PARAMETERS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; PLANETS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

VISCOSITY;

CORE (PLANETARY); MANTLE CONVECTION; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CONVECTION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 69449083714     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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