Emulating the thermal structure of spherical shell convection in plane-layer geometry mantle convection models

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 73-84

  O'Farrell, Keely A ^a   Lowman, Julian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geotherm; Internal heating; Mantle convection; Rayleigh number; Super Earths; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMS; INTERNAL HEATING; MANTLE CONVECTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SUPER-EARTHS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COOLING; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HEATING;

GEODYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; HEATING; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 77956190290     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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